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Old Mister Crow
Join Date: May-2002
Location: Seattle, WA.
Country: USA
Posts: 3,197
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Originally posted by Attila
To me it emphasizes the technical bravado of the grower....
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....and has little to do with trying to achieve an artistically balanced composition. I see it more like craft, not too rich in artistic qualities, sometimes too loud in striving for attention.
To me, it's little more than an interesting curiosity, which occasionally I would find entertaining.
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My thoughts exactly.
Well, not exactly. I didn't use quite as polite of language when I thought it.
Here's something I wrote about the subject in this contentious thread maybe two years back, as oart if an effort to explain why I don't like "oil slick" roots for their own sake:
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And so just
because it's so hard to do, it becomes valued, much as certain
precious metals (worthless as they be for any industrial use) are
valued simply because they're a pain in the butt to go dig up. Or to
put it less gently, these oil slick roots are another symptom of the
Good Ol' American contribution to bonsai, namely, the "mine is bigger
than yours" attitude that gave rise to the popularity of the so-called
sumo style shohin.
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Cheers,
Carl
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