The RMJ looks like a Ryan Neil styling? Its lovely.
What are people's thoughts on the pot? I like it but I'm not the expert, hahaha.
Also, not trying to take anything away from the display but trying to learn myself but I had a cascade juniper with a suiseki as the accent at the All-State show in Gd Rapids, MI and Mauro said that the order should be reversed as in the rock should be higher and the lower level represents the valley and it should be replaced with maybe something representing that. He even suggested a flowing brook or river so maybe a bronze fish (his words not mine, LOL).
Probably because he is a Mirai student and just worked on the tree up there the previous week! LOL
On the pot, I can’t decide if the lines compliment or distract from the line of the tree. I’m not sure how you get the perfect pot for a tree like this, buy 5 pots at $800 each and pick the best? $$$$ Ouch!
I appreciate the comment on display. But I’d have to reject the strict spatial association based on the fact that I like rocks! With this Rocky Mtn juniper I’d want to suggest the mountains which I guess can be done with a scroll or art (or maybe the tree alone is enough of suggestion). But why can’t there be a rock as an accent without insinuating that one is higher than the other? What if the mountains are small and distant? Maybe a less pointy, more eroded rock? We are obviously appropriating a lot from Japan when we show bonsai. But they have elevated the art of display, so I don’t know how we do it without leaning on and using some aspects that they have proven work while still retaining our own cultural aesthetic.
What about my semi-cascade prostrata display? The stand is a little heavy. But the rock is from the beach. I wanted to give the feel of the coastal juniper at the mountain or even at the beach cliff with the rock and sand representing the coast/beach. Effective or not?
Originally, I wanted an ~11” chunky trunk olive, styled like an old orchard tree gone wild, to be on the right and as a 3rd point the rock with sand (or a smaller rock). Representing the mountains, fields, and beach. But was told the juniper was too large for a 3pt display. It seems like the size appropriateness of a 3 pt display is relative to all the objects and the display space, not the size of one element. But I digress.
thank you for your comment.