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It is in this environment that Ryan spent six years Ryan’s bonsai
travelling the same path of many apprentices before
him, experiencing failures amongst the many suc- trees have
cesses. the awesome
The major Japanese philosopher of the twentieth
century, Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945) tells us that power of the
through active intuition, man forms and transforms masterpieces
the world, and in turn, is himself transformed. In such
thinking lies in the strength of the Japanese mentality. of Kimura, it is
In the absence of theoretical treatises in this tradition, an emotional
apprenticeship is a process that happens naturally;
seeing the works of the masters, learning from nature, tension
serving the master, receiving oral information from looking for a
the master when he thinks fit and, finally, the sacred
texts, supremely practical and instructive. contemporary
Being a Westerner in a total sense, Ryan has a chance artistic
to really go into the magnificent beauty of contempo-
rary bonsai, very dynamic, in which we see the power expression
of the master, a creative capacity in harmony with through natural
the theory of art and the grandeur of nature, always
however, respecting the trees being worked on. Living and perfect
much longer than we, they deserve the respect of the mastery of the
wise who really know how to work on them without
stressing them or making them die. technique.
Ryan’s work provokes pleasure that you understand
with aesthetic contemplation without consideration
of the source of that pleasure, without the distinc-
tion between major art, minor art or applied art as we

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