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Above; After Kobayashi worked on this juniper, the original owner sold it to one of my clients, Sito Farragut, who seeing it as a difficult job, asked me to work on it. When I
saw it for the first time I fell in love, for I could see the grand bonsai hidden in the bush it had become, neglected for eight years. The photos above show the condition of
the juniper before styling it.
The real beauty and uniqueness of the true avant-garde Left; Work starts anew on the
bonsai is the “emptiness,” but it does not mean the absence Phoenician juniper I named
of something (a sculpture is empty when you miss the Recaredo, after the Visigoth
person who it should represent). It means absolute King of the seventh century.
The details below show the
reality, empty of determinations and identifications. In refinement of the deadwood
fact, all that is determined and qualified has a relative and the decision to eliminate
existence and not absolute. the first branch to feature the
sculptural drama of the trunk.
This is the meaning of this bonsai: the absolute reality
is empty of every determined shape and as such limited
and conditional.
The observer can thus reach the absolute reality of nature
emptying the mind of all preconceived idea, of every
thought…
The void is the profound essence of the image: Its
aesthetic experience, its beauty.
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