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AN ELEGANT AND MINIMALIST SCOTS PINE
By Antonio Quinto This work is my small grain of sand in this pine monographic of this new and fascinating digital magazine I want to contribute and is my desire that the Spanish bonsai continues growing and our work arrives to all bonsai corners of the world.
	This red pine from yamadori origin with is extraordinary bark and smooth curves are a clear example of the bunjin style. Of elderly aspect and without protection set against the violence of the nature, these trees are the perfect material to form in this style, so free and so special, and that originates so many passions and that cannot lack in any collection. The first time I saw this pine I remain surprised by its bark and I thought about a very old tree that the nature already lacking low branches due to some hard living conditions. From there this pine and I, we live an authentic honeymoon, spent hours in my study trying to discover which would be its final form and to be able to configure its authentic bunjin spirit.
Provided that we have before us a so extraordinary and so old material, we should put all our attention in doing a meticulous study, to value all the aspects, to seek the best front and above all, to decide what branches we are going to cut and which will be the ones that finally will serve us for their subsequent design. I should confess that this pine put it me in a difficult situation, because, if to design a bonsai leaving from a virgin material always turns to be complicated, is it for double when we talk about a literati style. Nothing can lack but above all, nothing should exceed.
All were questions and conjectures, the birth of the trunk is very pretty around here but also from behind, this branch is very important, so I did not cut it, the apex? I will have to situate it just there, the rear branch that clusters, is a very important one in the design, because gives a lot of character and represents a lot of age. I will carry a lot of care with the bark when wire the branches. And the pot? I will put him in a round and very simple pot in which sure forms will remain very well.
And thus, little by little I was giving him a clear and unmistakable design. I decided to incline it toward the right accusing still more its movement and after giving him a first design, I transplanted it to its new pot. Now, after four years already begins to show its character, is an elegant and minimalist pine, as simple as the same life that speaks me of its history and the melancholy of the passing time.

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