I can't venture to answer for Andy, but here's what I'd say, Charles:
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Originally posted by dbz12fan
So your saying you want the millionair who just buys the trees to show how rich he is and pays someone to take care of them to win a competition?
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Well, close. The millionaire's
tree wins the competition.
The millionaire? Why pay any attention to him? When some thoroughbred wins the triple crown, no one gives a damn about who owns it, and no one says that only mustangs caught and broken by the jockey-owner can be entered in a horse race! When a splendid new building wins a design prize, people congratulate the architect, and no one complains that she doesn't also
own the building or that she didn't build it from ground up with her bare hands. Nor does anyone claim that the underwriter "cheated" by hiring the architect instead of attempting his own design.
Why should bonsai be any different?
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I really think a competition should be based on an artists skills on what he can do for a tree not how much money he has.
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If you remain worried that the wrong person get the credit, maybe we just need to pay a bit more attention to the history of tree and less to its current ownership. This is how things work in Japanese shows, of course. And there remains something for owners to be proud of, by the way - having the good aesthetic sense to buy the right trees and invest in the right artists' styling. No mean feat there!
All the best,
Cartl