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Kunio Kobayashi first worked
on this juniper, a yamadori
from southern Spain collected
by club Ullastre of Palma de
Mallorca, in 2003. The result of
the first styling was an informal
upright with much deadwood
features. Note the first main
branch on the right side. These
are the only photos showing
the first work by Kobayashi.
Photos on this page courtesy
Juan Avila, Spain.

The simultaneous work imposes a considerable tech-
nique to create a perfect bonsai that reflects the strength
of nature with a particular harmony that conceals a great
balance between the signs of near death seen up close and
the rigorous growth of a profuse and impetuous canopy.
The carved parts of the old and ancient trees are impres-
sive, and most green parts must be lush.
The strong and victorious contrasts are a wish for a long
life for the viewer.
The images of nature and the human world are seen
through the eyes of nature itself.
The contemporary bonsai raises art to where the expres-
sion becomes an impression.
The result separates items in a two-dimensional ab-
straction: asymmetry and simplicity are natural keys to
confront the observer. The visual experience becomes
an emotional moment that evokes memories and deep
feelings of the spirit without being limited by the subject
and the formal beauty of classicism.
The detail is freed from its subject from which it no lon-
ger comes: a contemporary form, as a “design object”,
which expresses the purity of the essence of the object.
The simplicity emerges from freeing nothing superflu-
ous, not only in physicality, but also in the way that the
viewer is fascinated by the challenge: nature is the real
teacher of beauty!
The aesthetic experience becomes an intimate and pro-
found emotion, not only enjoyable, not only artistic, but
also spiritual.
Recaredo, like any great contemporary bonsai, is impres-
sive for its aesthetic power, uncommon, but which cap-
tures one of the great secrets of nature, one of its most
intimate truths: the beauty of asymmetry leaves empty
spaces and frees the big energy of the movement. As in
a spiritual path there remains nothing superfluous, but
only what is truly natural, from the vacuum “everything”
and “nothing”.
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