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Recovering Workaholic
Join Date: Aug-2002
Location: Orange County NY
Country: USA
Posts: 647
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Originally posted by freakwent
With that said, my bonsai are in their very beginnings, and to show them may open me up to critique. That is how we learn though. I use the word WE because WE all benefit (from even the worst looking tree) not only as "artists" learning the craft and the theories of bonsai, but also as teachers that may pass on the tradition of Bonsai to others. I feel that some may deem it neccessary to have a judged competition because it seems that that is a form of validation that makes anything we do in life serious and worthwhile.
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Freakwent:
You *want* to open your trees for critique. You'll never learn otherwise. Criticism doesn't have to be negative. I don't necessarily agree with the critiques that people give me of my trees, but I always listen, and assimilate whatever I can use. You don't learn just by doing; you also learn by listening to others--and listening doesn't mean agreeing 100%
Craig Cowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a
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I'm not finished yet, neither are my trees.
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