Well.

Issue 93 of Bonsai Today contains within its pages an example of
the contrast between true greatness and faddish, wannabe
greatness.

Starting with "Goshen" on the cover and a couple other John Naka
trees inside you have the greatness.

And then there are those things by Kimura on later pages. I
wasn't going to comment on this contrast, my opinions on Kimura
being what they are (over exposed, over designed, over fussy,
and over decorated trees) but when the artist in the family,
Jackie (wife), picked up the magazine and made the same
comparison (and she doesn't know Kimura's pop reputation) I
guessed I might not be too far off base.

Her reactions to Kimura's trees: "Just too, TOO. Overdone. "

(And I certainly agree with the BT publisher about the "tacky"
photos.)

IMHO, of course. 8=/

I'd wish magazines like BT would devote as much to Naka's work
as they do to Kimura's.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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