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The Bamboo


There are over 100 species of bamboo that bloom once every 100 years!
This astonishing plant has always exerted a fascination for oriental painters and photographers all over the world. In the east it is associated with summer.

Bamboo plays such an important role in traditional Chinese culture that it is even considered a model of gentleman's behavior. With its natural characteristics such as righteousness, tenacity and a hollow heart, people attribute to this plant qualities of integrity, elegance and simplicity.

It allows for a number of variations in shapes, arrangements and shades of light, from a few mischievous leaves to a huge bamboo forest.

What are you mainly going to learn from him?

At the beginning, respect for shapes, arrangements of branches and leaves.
Then your gesture will be practiced to the powerful and delicate rhythm of the stems and the nuances of the leaves.
After a few experiments the degraded tones will slowly appear.
You will finally learn the balance of this noble plant between organization and apparent confusion, one of the characteristics of harmony in all natural things.


 



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