Introducing the LAB (Living Art of Bonsai)

Описание: Pacific Bonsai Museum's LAB is an experimental collaborative for bonsai design innovation.

This multiyear endeavor kicks off in 2018 with its inaugural LAB project investigating sequence. The project will reimagine traditional bonsai practices by resequencing the order of influence between the bonsai artist, ceramicist, and standmaker.

Rather than starting with a styled tree and asking both the pot and the standmaker to respond to it (as is traditionally practiced), the LAB asks: what if the stand comes first?; or the pot?; where can these makers take the art of bonsai if they allow themselves to influenced by each other in an entirely new way?

The 2018 LAB design team will include three renowned artisans and a facilitator: Standmaker, Austin Heitzman (Austin Heitzman Furniture, Portland, OR); Ceramicist, Ron Lang (Owner, Lang Bonsai Containers, Southport, NC); Bonsai stylist, Ryan Neil (Owner, Bonsai Mirai, St. Helens, OR; Facilitation, Aarin Packard (Curator, Pacific Bonsai Museum, Federal Way, WA).

Follow along on this channel as we find out what happens and reveal the exciting products of these artists' collaboration.