ChrisM

fred, you said - "How sad it is to see people who identify themselves so closelywith their opinions that they apparently feel threatened by any expression of opinion that differs from their own." thats what i said "probably" to.
al, i want to elaborate a little on my reply to you earlier. some are so hell bent in their ways that they can't imagine someone else doing/seeing it differently. so in this case, (and the case of all the other art threads) some people will not even consider bonsai COULD just be an art form as well as a hobby that requires a skill and level of talent. there are the traditionalists who think pop bonsai is a waste of time, while there are others who appreciate progression, for example. some will just not bend from the "RULES" and to those people i would ask, "nick lenz has created some amazing portrayals of bonsai work, he is inovative, imaginative and truely blessed with TALENT. he is obviously much more than a hobbyist, so then, to apply all this talk about art to bonsai, would it be unacceptable to say that he is a "BONSAI ARTIST"?

chris

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