Don’t read this until you have looked at the all the photos first to see if you can tell which are bonsai and which are simulations. After that you can read this caption and the rest of the text. Ravaged by time but still dignified. By Robert Steven and the great outdoors. From facebook.
Without reading the captions, can you tell which images are bonsai simulations and which are photos of bonsai?
A distinction worth making is between Robert Steven’s actual bonsai and his bonsai simulations that periodically appear on this blog. Simulations that are so realistic that it’s difficult to tell one from an actual bonsai. Though the artist’s eyes and vision are the same, the media are radically different. So different that you could say that Robert is a master of two art forms; bonsai and digital simulations.
A simulation or…? All of Robert’s simulations that appear on Bark are from actual bonsai that are submitted for critique.
This barely tamed savage beast lives where nature and the bonsai artist meet. From Roberts’s facebook photos.
One advantage to a simulation is that you can do anything you want. Including things you couldn’t do with a real tree. However, if you view any of Robert’s simulations next to the actual trees, you can see that he stays within the bounds of the possible. That includes this one.