The compressed quality (like a very large foot stepped on it) make for a somewhat unusual but natural looking bonsai. Then there's that wonderful trunk. The image is from Joko Sulistianto's facebook photos, as are all the images in this post. I don't know who the tree belongs too (ditto on the others).
Busy time of year and running behind so once again we’ll dig into our archives. This one is from April 2012. It was titled ‘Eccentric Bonsai: Pushing Invisible Boundaries.’
Way back in the recesses of time (2009 & 2010) we featured a whole series of posts titled ‘Eccentric Bonsai.’ Lately, we’ve backed off a bit. I think this is partly because unusual bonsai are more common as people from around the world are breaking away from more formulaic approaches and pushing the invisible boundaries (and using the internet to share what they and others are doing).
There was a time twenty years ago or so, when this bujin would have been considered unusual, even eccentric. Now trees that are this wildly expressive are popping up all over the place.
Just like the tree above, bonsai like this are no longer that unusual. The question that this one begs, is the issue of naturalistic versus more stylized bonsai (this was written when this issue was popping up a lot; since then, things have moved along and it doesn't come up so much)
Too eccentric? Ugly? I'll let you be the judge.
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