Good Day to All,

regarding Bonsai/Tree Penjing and the changes that
naturally occur with the passing of time,I tend to work
more with the idea of working towards a design,then
letting the tree/s free grow for a few years [this I base
on Horticultural health] and starting anew.

In the earlier issues of Bonsai Today I saw enough Kimura
make overs to be convinced that Bonsai/Tree Penjing are
essentially phoenixlike in nature.

I think that -living sculpture- requires a different type of
thinking and a new set of guidelines.So it's easy for me to
divorce the rules for say marble as sculpture or oil painting
or vitreous enamels from trees.

This is where the change or newness of concept starts.

A perfectly designed Bonsai/Tree Penjing can only exist for
me as a holograph [digital image with today's present
technology].
Khaimraj
[West Indies/Caribbean]


-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Snipes
To:
Date: 13 October 2003 19:29
Subject: [IBC] Altered work of art


Chris,

Your post regarding the alteration of a work of art brings to mind a
discussion that took place on the list a few years ago.

Someone asked if once a bonsai, Goshin for example, became part of a public
collection does the curator have an obligation to maintain the original
artist's design and direction, or is he free to change it at will?

Some felt that the curator should maintain the tree as designed, while
others felt it could be changed and redesigned as the curator saw fit.
Personally I feel that the curator of a collection has an obligation to
keep
to the original artist's design. After all, what would be the point of
having a composition like Goshin in a public collection, and then
redesigning it to suit someone else's artistic vision? (Obviously, a
living
work of art will need constant maintenance, but the original design intent
can be maintained.) One might compare that to doing a major repaint on the
Mona Lisa to improve the painting. :-)

Regards,
Roger Snipes Spokane, WA Zone 5, or maybe Zone 6.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it,
and then misapplying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

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