Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Bonsai trap
I admit it, I fell into that trap of losing my imagination of creating trees... that deadly pitfall for bonsai enthusiasts, where the eager hobbyist (I'm much more than a hobbyist in terms of interest if you ask me!) has swayed to thinking INSIDE the square of creating Bonsai.
Alas for the ever wandering and daydreaming mind!! I am not ashamed to admit, that I enjoy daydreaming and doing a lot of thinking... but in this particular situation, Bonsai growing wise... I've been deterred from that path of "creating a tree an image, something nice almost out of any raw stock thrown at me".... that "personality" and "personal and imagination" guides and dominates when creating a tree.
All that "let your imagination guide you" stuff I talked to many of you about and the abolishment of "rules" and "dos and donts" I have forgotten somewhere in those thoughts of bonsai.
I do not know when, but I still remember years ago creating a little something out of nothing as a complete novice, nothing that I know now about bonsai i knew back then. That little something is now something awesome in my own eyes and treasured, over Mr Kimuras or Kobayashis trees anyday.
So thus also thinking back to just a few weeks ago in my garden, there are little junipers that I had bought because I felt like it and thought they might look nice *sometime*... well, I wanted to make something out of them... these "unattractive" and thin trunked junipers...
Well, I made something out of them, just creating stuff that I found attractive to my eye... and hell I love them to bits now.
So a little... er... GROUNDBREAKING discovery about own self:
The IMAGINATION and passion is there... just well and truly misled.
and I thank the one and only Mr Lindsay Farr for that 3 -4 hours of wisdom given out to me whilst I hung around his workshop on a chilly day. That widsom that pierced through the fogginess of my bonsai mind and ultimately just put me on the right perspective of how bonsai does not have to be crafted by only advanced techniques, but by the imagination.
www.bonsaifarm.tv is Lindsay Farrs site, good stuff there, seriously.
OH and dont forget to have fun people... I have NEVER EVER forgotten that...
Alas for the ever wandering and daydreaming mind!! I am not ashamed to admit, that I enjoy daydreaming and doing a lot of thinking... but in this particular situation, Bonsai growing wise... I've been deterred from that path of "creating a tree an image, something nice almost out of any raw stock thrown at me".... that "personality" and "personal and imagination" guides and dominates when creating a tree.
All that "let your imagination guide you" stuff I talked to many of you about and the abolishment of "rules" and "dos and donts" I have forgotten somewhere in those thoughts of bonsai.
I do not know when, but I still remember years ago creating a little something out of nothing as a complete novice, nothing that I know now about bonsai i knew back then. That little something is now something awesome in my own eyes and treasured, over Mr Kimuras or Kobayashis trees anyday.
So thus also thinking back to just a few weeks ago in my garden, there are little junipers that I had bought because I felt like it and thought they might look nice *sometime*... well, I wanted to make something out of them... these "unattractive" and thin trunked junipers...
Well, I made something out of them, just creating stuff that I found attractive to my eye... and hell I love them to bits now.
So a little... er... GROUNDBREAKING discovery about own self:
The IMAGINATION and passion is there... just well and truly misled.
and I thank the one and only Mr Lindsay Farr for that 3 -4 hours of wisdom given out to me whilst I hung around his workshop on a chilly day. That widsom that pierced through the fogginess of my bonsai mind and ultimately just put me on the right perspective of how bonsai does not have to be crafted by only advanced techniques, but by the imagination.
www.bonsaifarm.tv is Lindsay Farrs site, good stuff there, seriously.
OH and dont forget to have fun people... I have NEVER EVER forgotten that...
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