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IMHO, we can't compare the both tanks... We're talking about different things!
One thing is to create a scenery using a lot of trees even that they weren't in scale, other thing is use only one tree in a small tank, taking in attention to the proportions and all details.
If you use a lot of objects, even that weren’t well done we’ll see it like a composition and not like a unique piece.
Ok, Mr Jang Kae Fuh did it before, but in a different concept… I don’t know if there are more examples of this kind of layout, I didn’t see nothing like this before…
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I agree with this statement completely. One is a representation of a landscape. The other is like underwater bonsai, and a little bit of Suiseki.
Suiseki;
Suiseki are small, naturally formed stones admired for their beauty and for their power to suggest a scene from nature or an object closely associated with nature. Among the most popular types of suiseki (pronounced suu-ee-seck-ee) are those that suggest a distant mountain, a waterfall, an island, a thatched hut, or an animal.
Actually a better word to use is, "bonsai zokai" which is the art of making "artificial" bonsai. Instead of using a real whole plant, and turning it into a representation of a larger tree. Bonsai zokai, uses artifitial elements to represent the same thing. I realize I'm getting way too technical. I'll stop now.
