The I Don't Care if Bonsai is Art, I Just Like the Trees Tread

[ConorDash]

I've still not seen this thread everyone's talking about where people argued bonsai isn't art..
But for obvious reasons I won't share my opinion on that here.

Can't something be and not be an art but still like the trees? I don't see any of it as mutually exclusive..

 

[Zach Smith]

This is a great thread, nice antidote to that horrid other thread with all the arguing and condescension about art and whose is bigger or better.

I am squarely in the camp of "I don't really care if bonsai is art, I just like the trees." After all, art is like what that Supreme Court Justice of old said about pornography, you know it when you see it. For bonsai, you work on trees for some period of time either trying to make them look like pictures of great bonsai you've seen or just trimming and wiring, and then one day it happens: you've done your thing and you just know you made it with that tree. It speaks to you and your personal sense of art. And there's usually no crowd standing behind you voting on whether or not you got it right. Now that's how to do bonsai.

Zach

 

[Steve Kudela]

Awesome!

I don't care!

Been pondering working the shimp.
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If someone says wire it...I'll do it...
Cutting too...
Yes? Please?

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More important...
What I'm not doing....
I was gonna

Style this....
But it just wasn't right.

Yours are awesome John!

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Pulling berries off the strong trunk of my mulberry layer project! Pimp fatty!

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And watching a Blue Rug juniper Make procumbins nana look like a straight Beeeeoch!
$1.25!

I love trees!

I love miniatures!

Sorce

Wire it!!!

 

[Cadillactaste]

I HONESTLY JUST DON'T CARE...

I just like trees...be it in the landscape...


or heavy laden with snow...


Or in a pot...


I like moss as well...



Love me some moss...

 

[sorce]

Wire it!!!

Yeah SK!

You Da Man!

Sorce

 

[Starfox]

For me I post my best and most artistic tree in my sig so it is always there, it was inspired by the composer John Cage's enigmatic musical masterpiece.
I call my tree "Bonsai: 4 minutes and 2 zero seconds". It's pure art, really makes you think...... oh wait, I don't care either.

Here are some flowers.

 

[Mellow Mullet]

It's been some minutes that I just did stop caring, too!
Photos of mine, a little later, if anyone cares...

I envy your willow leaf.
I have one over here with a beautiful (to my eyes) trunk and I am trying to get back budding but it is stubborn (due to my climate conditions I believe)

Yes, please post!

 

[Mellow Mullet]

For me I post my best and most artistic tree in my sig so it is always there, it was inspired by the composer John Cage's enigmatic musical masterpiece.
I call my tree "Bonsai: 4 minutes and 2 zero seconds". It's pure art, really makes you think...... oh wait, I don't care either.

Here are some flowers.
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Beautiful. Fuchsia, right?

 

[Mellow Mullet]

I JUST DON'T CARE...

I just like trees...be it in the landscape...
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or heavy laden with snow...
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Or in a pot...
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I like moss as well...
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Love me some moss...
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Awesome.

 

[Starfox]

Beautiful. Fuchsia, right?

Yeah, one of the wife's choices that one.

 

[ajm55555]

I don't care...

You taking a cutting there, Dav? :-D

 

[ajm55555]

I love trees and I care about being able to look at a beautiful tree when I can't be among them out there ;-)

 

[namnhi]

I don't care...
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Dav,
Is that you sitting on the table in picture 2 watching the guy cutting the tree down? .

 

[petegreg]

Beautiful. Fuchsia, right?

Magellanica, my favourite from among fuchsias. The darker flowers, the more sun their cultivars can stand.
I don't care.

@Dav4 , I tend to follow inspirational deeds, so my life is in danger now.

 

[ajm55555]

I've still not seen this thread everyone's talking about where people argued bonsai isn't art..

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/is-bonsai-art-inspired-by-bvf.27308/

 

[namnhi]

I don't care.... Just enjoy keeping them alive for now.

 

[Cadillactaste]

I've still not seen this thread everyone's talking about where people argued bonsai isn't art..
But for obvious reasons I won't share my opinion on that here.

Can't something be and not be an art but still like the trees? I don't see any of it as mutually exclusive..

I'm avoiding the thread now...it's ran its course in my brain. I know where bonsai stand in my own heart...and at the end of the day. That's good enough for me.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Dave's getting some sun on that yard!
Sorce, I don't care about much, but I do care about when you're due for an upgrade on that phone, bro.

A JBP from Brussel's; twice worked on by Peter Warren in 2011, my work since. Needs a good pot soon:


Hachi-Gen JBP from @Brent at Evergreen Gardenworks; Shibakatsu pot. 19 years old, my work for the last 9:


ROR trident in Ino pot, I collected the rock and struck the cutting:


Japanese Maple, from Brussels via Wood in 2002, from a 5-gal can to Yamaaki pot. All my work since:


Ume import, all my work since Peter and I set the carving line in 2011. Getting shaggy, Touyou pot:


JBP from Brussels nursery stock in 2007; my work, Nakawatari period pot, ShouYouKouSei kiln. Cool morning shot from my office window:


Azalea I collected in 2002, and worked on with Ben Oki in 2005; in a Koyo pot:


Hawthorn I collected in 1999, Shokosen pot, all my work. Another morning photo from my office window:

 

[thumblessprimate1]

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Oh Lawd! A few 'Ryusen' in that last image, @namnhi ?

 

[StoneCloud]

I like every single person's post here!!!! I just didn't feel like clicking "like" 253243673 times.

Yesterday I was browsing the net and saw some things on non traditional bonsai. Then I come on here and I think it was Sorce who collected a little shrub from somewhere in the landscape of his life LOL

I was inspired........I have tons of weeds in my yard and some have really woody stems..........so I walked around my yard and put this together in a few min. Didn't have any pot small enough. Even the bottom of this water bottle is too big lol

I believe it to be false buttonweed but I may be wrong it does have white flowers. Its ugly in my lawn, but the movement in this one was kind of cool.

Plus they don't die...ever.....kinda the perfect bonsai tree? haha

So anyway felt like going outside the box and here it is: