Walter Pall and his beginnings in bonsai
Author: Walter Pall
Collaborator: J.P. Arzivenko
In
1979 I already knew what bonsai was in general, but I hadn't seen a
real bonsai before. So, in a newspaper in Germany I read about a garden
center that had some bonsai shown and for sale. So I went there because I
was interested in garden things; since my early youth I was a gardner. I
went there and was deeply impressed and shocked at the saem time. I was
impressed about the appearance, the obvious age and the shapes. And I
was shocked about the wire biting in, and by some things I thought
pretty ugly and unnnatural. Anyway it seemed so difficult; although I
consider myself a good gardener, I thought "this is just impossible".
And
then the artistic part which also interested me very much, I also saw
as difficult to impossible. I grew up in a family full of artists, my
grandfather was a painter, my father was an actor (you would never
tell), my uncle was a poet and we had lunatics and insane all over the
place. Anyway I am also known as an artist sort of person. So I could
see the art in bonsai, and I thought it was very difficult. But
difficult and impossible things have always intrigued me, so somehow I
was drawn towards this, and very soon later I purchased my first bonsai.
Thats it how I started, and from then on it is just an addiction, I
cannot live without it, now it is my life.
