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It is really thrilling when in someone’s bonsai work we can feel something of what sculptor Henry Moore said:
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Vitality and power of expression. For me, a work must first have a vitality of its own. I do not mean a reflection of the vitality of life, of movement, physical action, frisking, dancing figures and so on, but that a work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it may represent. When a work has this powerful vitality we do not connect the word Beauty with it.
Beauty, in the later Greek or Renaissance sense, is not the aim of my sculpture.
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life – but may be a penetration into reality… an expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.
After extensive preparations and planing, at the end of December 2011. we have finnaly constructed heating bed in our greenhouse. Our prime intention is to enhance surviving rate of newly collected trees (in November and December 2011), and as general help on tree recover.
Frame is wooden, covered with polyester resin all around, to become waterproof. At the bottom we have put styropor as isolation, then heating cable into pumice. Over the bed we have tighten wire to and put nylon over the whole bad, to keep moisture and heat.
After 40 days, almost all trees inside have started budding like at the beginning of Spring! This cold wave and bad weather can be good test for the heating bed.
For the continental part of Croatia snow is normal at this time of the year, but in southern part of county at the Adriatic coast where we live, 20cm of snow is exceptional event. Last time we had this much snow in 1971. Schools and all public offices are not working. After cleaning main roads, public transportation will start to function again.
Weather forecast for this days were announcing temperatures to -10°C. So few days ago we have put all our trees into greenhouse. So far temperatures are around 0°C.
