do not take it the wrong way. but to me, many of your trees just look the same, whether it be a conifer or a deciduous.
Hi Bobby, yes, that's right.
It's probably a sort of claim, like "we"re alive and well", opposed to "We were great and now we're rottig away" - look how great we were before we chose to be 'impaired", "disabled", or almost dead.
It's a choice of what one sees the future.
I like healthy trees with as little "dead" wood as can be.
I like Life, the future, not a sick view of Life-after-Life like rotting or dead-dry trees.
It really looks insane to me. I don't phantasise on death, decay, suffering or whatever : when I imagine the future as a tree, I am a slender, strong tree, not a sick, crippled tree.
You may find it more sexy, I don't mind, but that's not my cup of tea.
I prefer healthy strong trees. I'd rather fantasize on life, not death.
Why do some imagine a venerable tree as sick and on the verge to die?...
As if trees, and people, were just like self-carved images of a personal universe.
From my early childhood, I've loved trees, I've always tried to rise those that were a bit different, but I never tried to make those who were healthy look like "beautiful handicapped" trees. To me, that sounds a bit insane.
And "styling" a tree to make it look like a cripple sounds totally insane to me. OK, sado-masochism is an option, but that's not my cup of tea.