----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lewis"
Subject: [IBC] Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection Call to
Artists

Enter if you wish, but, like a daiza isn't ART, neither is
this!


Jim, THAT'S gonna get you some emails!! :)
Dale

Well, not yet, but as Andy noted to me -- offlist -- the extent
to which bonsai is an art is . . . so, at least partially,
because the tree/pot/stand/etc... harmonize for a cohesive
(single) image. This business of working to make one of those
elements
conspicuous only occurs at the expense of the overall display. .
.. . In other words, making any part of the composition
conspicuous makes, by definition, the "composition" fall apart
and become a ridiculous mess.

If Pac. Rim want to highlight stand or pot art, they need to do
so outside of the realm of bonsai.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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