october

I realize this Pat, no need to give it a thought. I want everyones honest opinions and want to know exactly what they think. Like I said, this is not something where someone can say, well, this needs or must be like this. It is all how we see the tree. This is what makes this tree unique, Its the fact that, for a change, there is not a necessarilly right or wrong staement. Its how we all interpret this tree.

I was quite conflicting when buying it. However, the initial beauty that I saw in it is starting to come out and I am very glad I didn't pass on it. It actually has been at the nursery for a while and I believe I did pass on it a few months back.

QUOTE]Esthetically speaking it activates the negative space both below and above it.

I really like the picture provided by mike_p, but IMO literati is so much more than what can be seen in paintings/drawings like that. Without being too philosophical, I think the best literati speaks of ideals, moral, and what it means to be human. By reducing it to something that you've seen in a picture you strip it of everything that makes it literati, and turn it into pure craft (I'm not saying that mike_p was doing that, just stating my own opinion).
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Very well put mindcrime. I believe that going out of my way to try to get this to conform to something would make it more generic. In a way, there are so many flaws, that is becomes symetrical. In other words, all the flaws together seem to actually come together and form an elegant composition making up the trunk, branches and foliage. If this tree had only one flaw, It would actually make the tree less symetrical, in my opinion