The Aesthetic of the Bristle Cone Pine Tree

Bonze techniques involve the creation, shaping and preservation of dead wood on a living bonze tree to enhance this sense of age. The aesthetic you see in the natural growth of bristle cone pine trees often have the appearance of a live tree growing on or within this ancient, warped, twirling piece of dead wood. There is something just intrinsically attractive about it. And there's a very particular aesthetic that that actually exists in the natural world, not just in human horticulture, that i find very beautiful.