dbz12fan,
Bonsai is not a competition. It is often a comparison. Trees cannot "beat" other trees, they are merely less beautiful, more beautiful, less artistically effective or less so than another. What I'm referring to has nothing to do with people - rich, poor or otherwise. Rather, it has to do with changing this ridiculous mindset that bonsai is about people who are better or worse than other people. On the contrary, last time I checked, the
trees are what our focus is proported to be and it is the trees that should be judged to be of superior quality/beauty or lacking quality/beauty.
If a tree is owned by a rich person, what business of ours it it? Why would that be bad? Is it then "good" that a bonsai is owned by a poor person? Where is the logic here. Holding to such irrelevant ideas is only concerned with class warfare and class envy. It certainly has nothing to do with how beautiful or artistic a bonsai is.
Kind regards,
Andy Rutledge
http://www.bonsai365.com/ :: living bonsai every day
zone 8, Texas