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Pop Bonsai: Fun with Arranging Small Trees and Plants
Lisa Tajima,Kirsten McIvor,Hisayoshi Osawa
These are not your grandfather's bonsai. Although artist Lisa Tajima studied bonsai from a traditional master, she adapted the ancient techniques into her own unique visual style--which she termed "pop bonsai." Pop Bonsai is a new, freestyle approach to the traditional art of growing miniature trees and plants. It ignores existing rules about what bonsai ought to be, and instead shows how they can be grown and displayed in ways that give free rein to the imagination. Pop Bonsai, Tajima's fist book, shows how to use interesting and whimsical containers that are readily available--handmade clay containers, teapots, beer cans, decorative paper bags, wine glasses, motorcycle helmets, and even eggshells--to create modern, and sometime wacky, silhouettes. This informative book also outlines all the techniques necessary for making and maintaining your bonsai: from selecting a seedling, trimming its branches and leaves, and bending and wiring the trunk and branches into whatever shape you choose. The result: a living work of art to display and enjoy as you like. A completely unconventional approach to an ancient art. Pop Bonsai will inspire beginners and experienced gardeners alike to try their hand at creating living works of art. Heavily illustrated throughout with color photos of bonsai in Western interiors and black-and-white process photos and illustrations, Pop Bonsai is as much a delightful curiosity as it is the perfect tool for those who want to get started on plants of their own.
Paperback: 96 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.38 x 8.04 x 8.90
Publisher: Kodansha America; (April 1, 2004)
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