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From: "manik" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "marc.garrett" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:46 PM
> marc wrote:
> Perhaps we are - we need to watch out for the pruning shears, that aim
> to prune net art (and media art) into a more cosy bonsai, centralized
> plant…
>
> " The art of growing dwarfed, ornamentally shaped trees or shrubs in
> small shallow pots or trays."
> http://www.answers.com/bonsai&rg
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> marc
>
> When I was teacher one of my student was in extremely anti-bonsai mood.
> She mentioned every day how she hate bonsai,but she couldn't explained
why.
> I couldn't find any term under 'bonsaiphobia'on wiki,or google,so this
case
> remain one bizarre thing in my life.
> I see what you mean by this 'metaphor',but this(our)world must be very
> small, almost invisible to accept whole creative potential and
> ethic/aesthetic
> which is still left .In this space relations bonsai tree could be whole
> universe.Also Chinese traditional method of squeeze foot was,also,
> following this logic art of woman foot shape.It was very painful-this
> bonsaied foot.Maybe I can see
> root(foot)of my student obsession.
> MANIK
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