Alvaro

I'm... I don't know. To be blunt, I don't like it. I appreciate the excellent work from the technical point of view. Certainly it must have been a difficult and fun project to turn a crassula into a "pine". The movement of the trunk is subtle but well defined, the branches are in the right places, the foliage pads work together nicely, and I like the choice of pot. But there is more to bonsai than all that. I guess the reason I don't like it has to do with an old philosophical discussion about insincerity in art, or artworks that lie. Of course in a sense all art is untrue, Michelangelo's David is not a naked guy, it is a piece of stone, but it is truthfull in some other sense. The philosophical debates have centered around the way to specifiy which senses are these; when can we say a work of art lies in a way that Michelangelo's David doesn't. No definitive answer from philosophers yet, but it seems to me this tree oversteps that line.

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A bonsasi is to a tree what Hamlet is to an actor. It is the performance that creates the essence.