Page 13 - Tạp chí bonsai cây cảnh BCI 2017Q2

This Juniperus chinensis, titled Dragon in the Sky, was started in
1988. The top right photo is from 2010, the photo at the bottom
is from 2015.

Shaping with bending and carving
Therefore, I am particular about shaping, with
techniques such as lightly bending, cutting or re-
shaping the branches, and with the silk fiber method
of carving skills, so that the branches are in the shape
of crane singing, or in the shape of dragon exposing
its bones. The branches twist, sit up, swing, dive or
grow up. I feel this is different from normal bonsai
and incorporated with new meanings throughout
the years, my bonsai creations have become the best
way to showcase life and art. For example, using this
"contrarian exercise" approach on an approximately
60-year-old Juniperus chinensis, after 20 to 30 years of
cultivation and carving, I have created on the bonsai,
the look of a thousand-year-old tree that has gone
through many hardships and displays the beauty of
nature.

April/May/June 2017 | BCI | 11