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<hr>Species - Needle Juniper
Style - Forest
Artist - Chuck Nelson

Shinji as translated by Hideko:

"In this display the artist has correctly put the largest tree in front while showing smaller trees in the back for depth. The display shows great imagery and gives the feeling that this is a place that one would like to walk into and sit and relax for a while."

Things to change:
1. The central tree has a jinned top. More of the other trees need to have tops like this to carry the theme on through out the display.
2. The stones ( while hard to see..sorry) need to be placed in the display with the largest in front and getting smaller to the rear. Carry the theme of larger in the foreground and smaller in the rear with trees and stones too.
3. No accent. ( note, the accent was removed from the display before the exhibit was even open. The artist brought it and decided that he too thought it was very crowded. Since I had taken the picture before its removal, I included it as a critique, though not pointed out by Shinji.

Audiance questions, are the stones appropriate. Shinji: " the stones are found with trees throughout nature. When they are included they should be placed as though nature did it and they should follow the same rules of composition." Shinji thought except for the size reversal that the stones had been placed very natural and that the moss placement was done very well, "like it had grown there for years". ( probably had)

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