Beech with vase. The tree is a Japanese beech 'Fuji' by Kazuhiro Ohashi. The photo is from Weyerhaeuser's Pacific Rim Arts of the Earth Exhibit. This exhibit took place in 2006. In 2013 the Weyerhaeuser corporation gifted its entire bonsai collection to what is now know as the Pacific Bonsai Museum. You can read the whole story here.
Continuing with our Japanese beech theme (see the tree above), we’re going to journey back to the early days of this century and revisit a unique bonsai and ceramic art exhibition from 2006. I think you’ll like the photos and the commentary by David DeGroot, who was the curator at the WeyerhaeuserPacific Rim Bonsai Collection (now Pacific Bonsai Museum) at the time, and who is the author of one of the best bonsai books in the English language (see below).
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We've seen this oft photographed tree before, but never quite like this. It's one of Nick Lenz' famous larches.In David De Groot’s own words…
“When I first conceived the idea for Traditions and Transitions — Arts of the Earth, I had three objectives in mind:
The first was to explore the traditional interrelationship between ceramics and bonsai — one kind of artwork being formed of the earth and the other springing from it.
The second was to explore the ways in which old concepts and methods ebb and flow as arts evolve.
The third was whether the traditional Japanese method of combining works to illustrate an idea or theme can work in a setting less structured and formal than a tokonoma (traditional art display alcove)…. ” There’s more here.
Dave DeGroot’s
Principles of Bonsai Design
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