Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Now...you are being an @ss. You seek attention...and I'm done with you. Enjoy your last crumb from me. As in I don't tend to feed trolls. You now...go to my ignore list.
Cosmic Bonsai/Laurent Darrieux to be in the USA...2025
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NMbonsai
Sapling
I wasn't trolling you. I was responding to your snarky comment directed at me. Please put me on your ignore list. Works for me. I am here to learn and share about bonsai, not participate in controversy. There is enough of that out in the rest of world.Now...you are being an @ss. You seek attention...and I'm done with you. Enjoy your last crumb from me. As in I don't tend to feed trolls. You now...go to my ignore list.
Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
I think that the cosmic form lends a lot of possibility to accents outside the normal realm of accent display.
The figures are just that... accents meant to accompany and lend a complete image. If you remove them, the "tree" says something different, just as a different element in a traditional display would change the overall meaning and impression.
Its fine to critique a particular element as kitsch, but to levy that criticism against the overall style is regressive.
If laurent was coming to my area, Id be sure to try and attend and pick his brain both on the horticultural technique side of the cosmic bonsai style, as well as the philosophical/aesthetic side. I get the impression he is seeking the next step: symmetry-->asymmetry-->cosmic(?).
Lovecraft was all about "indescribable angles and dimension." What better artform to explore than that of bonsai?
The figures are just that... accents meant to accompany and lend a complete image. If you remove them, the "tree" says something different, just as a different element in a traditional display would change the overall meaning and impression.
Its fine to critique a particular element as kitsch, but to levy that criticism against the overall style is regressive.
If laurent was coming to my area, Id be sure to try and attend and pick his brain both on the horticultural technique side of the cosmic bonsai style, as well as the philosophical/aesthetic side. I get the impression he is seeking the next step: symmetry-->asymmetry-->cosmic(?).
Lovecraft was all about "indescribable angles and dimension." What better artform to explore than that of bonsai?
Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
There is harmony in disharmony, just not the type/prevelence of harmony you expect or seek. There are no opposites in the components that make up aesethic, just differing saturations of elements.
Asymetrix
Yamadori
Take my responses always with a grain of salt. I'm not a professional nor do I even have any show quality trees currently. I am however, like all of us, a student.
Bonsai is an expression of nature. Our artistic inclinations and our ego are entwined deeply in the work we perform on our trees - and must be minimally visible in the "finished" product.
I agree it is often considered "highbrow". Mostly attributed to the cost of doing it correctly. Juxtaposition and shock value work in most forms of artistic expression; in the case of bonsai however we are working with nature to nurture the greatest expression of natural beauty.
Adding elements that are unquestionably artificial to the image is I feel inherently against not just the the art form, but nature itself.
"Nature transcends what we can imagine" Henry David Thoreau
Bonsai is an expression of nature. Our artistic inclinations and our ego are entwined deeply in the work we perform on our trees - and must be minimally visible in the "finished" product.
I agree it is often considered "highbrow". Mostly attributed to the cost of doing it correctly. Juxtaposition and shock value work in most forms of artistic expression; in the case of bonsai however we are working with nature to nurture the greatest expression of natural beauty.
Adding elements that are unquestionably artificial to the image is I feel inherently against not just the the art form, but nature itself.
"Nature transcends what we can imagine" Henry David Thoreau
