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bonsai is not my hobby
Join Date: Oct-2001
Location: Egling, south of Munich
Country: Germany
Posts: 1,450
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This is the tree in a virtual pot.
Now if something like this were presented in a bonsai show and I had to critique it I would be full of compliments. This finally is not just an awkward silly copy of bonsai in books, this is a naturalsitic bonsai which was designed from the real thing. I might award it best in show. This is a cookie cutter that people should impress into their minds and use rather than the nrothern pine shape.
Now this is just my taste. Nobody has to agree with my taste, Nobody has to like my designs. All I am saying is that I have won more awards for classical trees (cookie cutter trees) than the rest of Central Europe together. I have radicallly changed my mind and I now believe that this was just for learning purposes but not worth my time anymore. It is a dead end street and it is a pity that people slavishly follow designs which just don't fit their tree species, their climate and their culture.
One could say: 'this is not a tree of my taste'. That's fine. But if one says 'this is a short-cut, an easy way out' one has not listened, or is a beginner who just cannot comprehend this in context yet, or just does not want to understand it and feels OK to stay an ignorant.
I have a lot of patience to discuss with people who know what they are talking about, or who do not and want to learn. I do get short tempered in discussions where I hear statements about something when the person has given this five minutes of thought while I have given this serious thought and endlsess consideration for twentyfive years.
You don't have to agree with me, but to take me for a fool is not the proper way.
best regards
Walter Pall
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