Bonsai and the Anthropocene
Bonsai practice represents an active and intense human-plant interaction that could, if it were to become more widespread, help to prevent climate change.
View ArticleJudgement Day
There is no bonsai exhibition judging system that will satisfy everyone. But can we do better?
View ArticleAmerican Bonsai History – Keystone Arts
The story of Keystone Arts shows the power of collaboration between bonsai artists.
View ArticleAmerican Bonsai or Bonsai in America?
What is “American Bonsai” and how should the ABS define “Native” in the context of American Bonsai as an art form?” – Susan Daufeldt, ABS Newsletter editor.
View ArticlePeace Trees
Trees have been associated with peace for many years. Explore these relationships on World Bonsai Day.
View ArticleAppreciating Bonsai as Aesthetic Objects
Bonsai are complex aesthetic objects, how do we appreciate them?
View ArticleBonsai Ethics
“Ethics – moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity” – Encyclopedia Britannica, online edition, September, 2023 Introduction The main area of ethical concern...
View ArticleNine of the Best Books about Trees and Art for 2024
If bonsai = (nature + art), multiplied by time, then the books listed here are truly “bonsai books”. Their subjects range from art, aesthetics, and creativity, to our relationships with trees and...
View ArticleHarnessing time
Bonsai artists collaborate with nature and natural processes but they harness time.
View ArticleRepotting Season – Bonsai as an Aesthetic Practice
It is this cycle, this rhythm of stress and then recovery and the tree’s “memory” of these events, as embodied by its form, that leads to the creation of great, old bonsai… Walter Scott The changing of...
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