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Al, I have to agree with you. The human eye looks for the fulcrum point for any precarious object, and most of the pictures you used to illustrate your post show excellent examples of the ideal. The roots add the needed mass where the eye says they should be. I would disagree with the postulation that the roots should continue a line from the slant of the trunk. This would lead the eye away from the foliage and away from the tree. In your examples the eye make an ovate route no matter where the line starts. This draws the person into the tree, in the hopes if further exploration.

Picture 18704 offers an image which looks off balance, that tree appears to be ready to collapse. the large lower left branch appear to be the sustaining mass to counterbalance the apex. The curve of the trunk appears to be a struggle by the tree to right itself before it must succumb to the forces of gravity.

16-Feb-2005	#5
JLDoggett bonsaiTALK Artisan Join Date: May-2004 Posts: 115	Al, I have to agree with you. The human eye looks for the fulcrum point for any precarious object, and most of the pictures you used to illustrate your post show excellent examples of the ideal. The roots add the needed mass where the eye says they should be. I would disagree with the postulation that the roots should continue a line from the slant of the trunk. This would lead the eye away from the foliage and away from the tree. In your examples the eye make an ovate route no matter where the line starts. This draws the person into the tree, in the hopes if further exploration. Picture 18704 offers an image which looks off balance, that tree appears to be ready to collapse. the large lower left branch appear to be the sustaining mass to counterbalance the apex. The curve of the trunk appears to be a struggle by the tree to right itself before it must succumb to the forces of gravity.