Would you plant two trees with each tree at the opposite end of the pot? Most people will think that would be nuts. What if someone could point you and see things in a different light, would you begin to appreciate it or just say nah, that breaks the bonsai or even penjing rules?
In Part 2 of my travel blog I visited a penjing garden in a Daoist monastery in Hong Kong; the late Abbot Hao created one just like that. He approached his penjing with unconventional views from a Daoist’s philosophical views embracing the way of Nature. They make sense when you understand what he was doing.
This twin trunk was planted by taking the viewer inside a forest, seeing two large trees at close range. A common scene when we walk in a mature woods or an old forest. He broke up the monotony by placing figurine of a traveler close to one tree. Suddenly the scene becomes believable though highly unconventional, an antithesis to the old cliché, can’t see the forest for the trees. He wanted you to see the trees instead of the forest!
His styles are fantastic, his trees tell stories and are unconventional. To see more of his works and my analysis, please go to the 'Shameless Commerce Division' otherwise known as 'Bonsai Penjing & More' from the not so fair city of ....
https://bonsaipenjing.wordpress.com...unconventional-penjing-in-a-daoist-monastery/
In Part 2 of my travel blog I visited a penjing garden in a Daoist monastery in Hong Kong; the late Abbot Hao created one just like that. He approached his penjing with unconventional views from a Daoist’s philosophical views embracing the way of Nature. They make sense when you understand what he was doing.
This twin trunk was planted by taking the viewer inside a forest, seeing two large trees at close range. A common scene when we walk in a mature woods or an old forest. He broke up the monotony by placing figurine of a traveler close to one tree. Suddenly the scene becomes believable though highly unconventional, an antithesis to the old cliché, can’t see the forest for the trees. He wanted you to see the trees instead of the forest!
His styles are fantastic, his trees tell stories and are unconventional. To see more of his works and my analysis, please go to the 'Shameless Commerce Division' otherwise known as 'Bonsai Penjing & More' from the not so fair city of ....
https://bonsaipenjing.wordpress.com...unconventional-penjing-in-a-daoist-monastery/