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Originally Posted by mike_p
Hi Ms. Vic
Good to see Dan working away with his die grinder. Is he still using core box bits?
I first met Dan at the 1980 GSBF convention in Sacramento. He was styling collected pines with a chainsaw. That's what got me started using power tools on bonsai. As soon as I got home from the convention, I bought a small electric chainsaw. Still have it and it works good.
In 1987, Dan and I did a dual demo for Bonsai Society of San Francisco at their annual show at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Dan styled a Ponderosa Pine he had collected, and I put together a rock to plant it in. One of the members won it, and sometime later she gave it to me as it was much too big for her to manage. The height from table is about 30 inches.
The image I'm posting was made last summer sometime to enter in the World Contest.
It's good to see you working with Dan at Elandan. You'll have fun, and learn lots.
Mike
Edit next day: I went into the "archives" and found this picture that was taken about 4 years after the original work by Dan, and the planting in the rock.
Mike
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Mike...
I had no idea Dan was a catalyst to starting you down the path of working bonsai with power tools. (smile) I find that thought pleases me a great deal.
When I see your trees I see such a nice blend of ideas and what I'll call "schools of thought". I have seen some of your trees be very heavily altered by carve work, possessing a balance of what I see as a freedom of expression in bonsai (true artistry) and something which most can still recognize within the medium (usually meaning a small bent towards the Japanese aesthetic). I find your work very satisfying on a number of different levels. Always have.... long before I had any vauge sense of how to define it in my own thinking.
I will remind Dan of this tree. It'll make him happy to know it is doing so well. I'll have to mail this link to Diane, so she can show it to him.
Having fun with Dan is a foregone conclusion. We enjoy each other's company immensely... actually the whole family is a riot.
With respect,
Victrinia