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bonsaiTALK Expert
Join Date: Apr-2003
Posts: 184
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Dear Attila, thank you for your comments. You are right of course in pointing out that this olive is by no means styled to look like an olive. I do quite a bit of collecting of olives and although I have seen many interesting shapes, I have never seen anything which resembles the above. However, what I have wondered about (and in some respects it was the motivation for the styling of this tree) was why one could not make a literati with a trunk of some substance. In some respects literati
are idealized trees whose beauty lies in their form and shape. They generally are not styled to replicate what one sees in nature but more
as an artistic exercise. Generally they have rather slender trunks unlike what I have attempted. Whether or not I have succeeded is most likely a moot point.
Treenut , the last photo is an image of the previous photo in which I have added foilage mass with some computer software.
Charles, thank you for your comment .
Hank
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