The therapeutic value of bonsai. - bonsaiTALK Community

14-Feb-2007	#1
hansvanmeer bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman Join Date: May-2005 Country: The Netherlands Posts: 982	The therapeutic value of bonsai. The therapeutic value of bonsai. Would I have been John Lennon today, feeling like I did. I would have written “Mother” or “Imagine”! Would I have been a sculptor: my frustrations would be carved out off the hardest stone, showing how I felt when I created it, until the end of times for the world to see!! Would I have been a poet: my fears and doubts revealed on to paper, would have brought tears to teenage girls eyes for years to come! Even my dispaires, transformed in to paint on canvas! Would out “Scream” Eduard Munch his painting! But instead off all that: I had to express my emotions to day in to my bonsai art! So “with a lot of facial expression ” I cut off the old copper wire off a pine branch,...it then, decided to jump right back in to its old position it had, before it took me 4 hours to wire it 2 years ago! So to commemorate this passionate and emotional driven artistic endeavor: I turned that *** branch in to a jin ! More in the line of how I feel today, so to say! A stump of broken dead wood....my gift to the world of Art! I think: that the therapeutic value of expressing ones feelings in the Art of Bonsai , are highly overrated! Hans van Meer. __________________ "I fly so high...and fall so low!"** Website: www.karamotto.org Bonsai Blog: http://www.knowledgeofbonsai.org/ha..._meer/index.php AoB Profil on Hans van Meer: http://www.artofbonsai.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1191 Last edited by hansvanmeer : 14-Feb-2007 at 06:06 PM.

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14-Feb-2007	#2
agraham bonsaiTALK Master Chief Join Date: Jan-2004 Location: South Texas Country: U.S.A. USDA Zone: 9-10 AHS Heat Zone: 11 Posts: 1,195	I'm not smiling at your misfortune Hans...but at your eloquence. The jin was obviously destined to be. andy __________________ http://pittmandavis.com/

14-Feb-2007	#3
grampz Behr Appleby Join Date: Aug-2003 Location: Kyle Tx Country: USA USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: 10 Posts: 946	Mr. Hans, Thank you for making my day...I have no doubt we all experience moments of frustration in our art...But to express it in such words and thoughts, I must say "BRAVO" Mr. Hans... Regards Behr __________________ As the Master departed the workshop, he could have sworn he heard some one saying rather loudly... *"I thought he would never leave"* San Antonio Bonsai Society, Inc.

15-Feb-2007	#4
CScott bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Feb-2005 Location: Shasta County, California Country: USA USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: 9 Posts: 422	Tears I'm not a teenage girl, but your poetry brought tears to my eyes - tears of laughter. You are soooo not alone! My most frustrating day was spent breaking every branch on a tree I was trying to wire. Jin was not an option. A bottle of gin would have been a better way to spend my time. Love reading any and all of your posts. Carmen

16-Feb-2007	#5
irene_b Student of Life Join Date: Mar-2006 Location: Castroville,Texas Country: USA USDA Zone: 8b-9a AHS Heat Zone: 10 Posts: 1,754	Hans my friend! You are priceless!!!!! I have indeed done the same! Irene __________________ Student of Life Student of Nature "From bonsai we receive peace of mind, health and a life’s pursuit. We can also learn generosity, patience and even philosophy about life. We can also have the good fortune to make friends of all nationalities and races with whom we share a mutual trust and respect. This is all thanks to bonsai." "Saburo Kato" http://gongshi.freeforums.org/index.php http://bonsaivaultforum.freeforums.org/portal.php

19-Apr-2007

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Hi! According to this site I am neophite on Bonsai. I have only 18 years doing it. However, at this point I agree with you. Every bonsai transmite me a relaxing energy: cleaning it, prunning, or just getting lost into the small tree. Like a child enjoying the tree shadows or the montain (in the case of forest or suisekis).

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Originally Posted by hansvanmeer

The therapeutic value of bonsai.

Would I have been John Lennon today, feeling like I did. I would have written “Mother” or “Imagine”!

Would I have been a sculptor: my frustrations would be carved out off the hardest stone, showing how I felt when I created it, until the end of times for the world to see!!

Would I have been a poet: my fears and doubts revealed on to paper, would have brought tears to teenage girls eyes for years to come!

Even my dispaires, transformed in to paint on canvas! Would out “Scream” Eduard Munch his painting!

But instead off all that: I had to express my emotions to day in to my bonsai art! So “with a lot of facial expression ” I cut off the old copper wire off a pine branch,...it then, decided to jump right back in to its old position it had, before it took me 4 hours to wire it 2 years ago! So to commemorate this passionate and emotional driven artistic endeavor: I turned that ***** branch in to a jin ! More in the line of how I feel today, so to say! A stump of broken dead wood....my gift to the world of Art!

I think: that the therapeutic value of expressing ones feelings in the Art of Bonsai , are highly overrated!

Hans van Meer.

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