Thanks Chris. You write:
"Showing a tree you've only owned for 1 week? Ambivalent towards that. I can see your point, but how do you appease the artist who has invested 20 years of time in a tree who sees a collector beat her/him to the honours? Tell them to get over it I suspect you'll say, and I suppose that is the only real answer."
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This is the point - you're talking about judging the
people rather than the tress. What is important in judging bonsai is the quality and beauty of the
bonsai. In judging bonsai beauty and quality, it matters not one whit who owns the tree or for how long, or who styled the tree. This matters only in artists competition, not bonsai discrimination.
Ego and quality are two entirely separate things. We cannot pretend to be concerned with one when we're only really concenred with the other. It makes for illogical and irrlelvant results.
Kind regards,
Andy Rutledge
http://www.bonsai365.com/ :: living bonsai every day
zone 8, Texas