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bonsai is not my hobby
Join Date: Oct-2001
Location: Egling, south of Munich
Country: Germany
Posts: 1,451
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Well, I chose to explain that this is absolutely unfit to be styled according to the standard cookie cutters. If one looks at a bonsai book and tries to design this in a classical form it is going to be a disaster. Even if one suceeds it is still not right. It would be a fig looking like a northern pine tree. A good looking transvestite at best.
It is terrible material for clasical styling, it is really and insult to a classical designer who gets paid a lot of money and then receives this pathetic piece of material.
Thanks god I am not a classical designer. I explained that one should look at a new cookie cutter her. Just go outside and look at what your fig tres look like in your parks and gardens. If viewed from this angle it is excellent material really.
After about fifteen cuts and almost no wire at all it looked like this. To me a pretty good cookie cutter for a tropical fig tree.
Now note: naturalsitic is NOT when you leave a piece of material more or less like it was and put it into a pot. This happed to be the case here by coincidence only. Naturalistic is the FEELING a bonsai gives to you. How this feeling is achieved does not matter. If one uses tons of wire and all sorts of artificail measures it can become a very good naturalsitic bonsai. Whereas if one puts a shrub into a pot and declares it naturalistc it will probably be pathetic and just make the misunderstanding apparent.
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