\u2019n Bonsai-labirint? Ja, dit is presies wat Johan Morkel van die Boland Bonsai-klub vermag het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir die buite-die-boks-skepping het Morkel tydens die Afrika Bonsai-fees, wat in November as deel van Garden Town Stellenbosch by die Stellenbosch-stadsaal aangebied is, die Forbidden Branch-trofee ontvang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die geleentheid word jaarliks aangebied, met alles bonsai op die program. Vanjaar is die 200 beste bonsai in die streek en land uitgestal, stalletjies het \u2019n verskeidenheid goedere te koop aangebied, werksessies in di\u00e9 kuns is gehou en top bonsaikenners het hul kennis en vaardighede gedeel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die idee van \u2019n bonsai-labirint is in 2020 tydens die Covid-19-inperking gebore. Morkel en sy mede bonsai-liefhebber, Louis Roos, het toe per uitnodiging deur die plaaslike bonsai-kenner, Willem Pretorius, Saterdagoggende aan die witolien-bonsai\u2019s van Louis Nel by Babylonstoren gaan werk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWillem het my gevra of ek bewus was van die spekboom-labirint by Muldersvlei. Ek wou graag na die labirint gaan kyk en het gegoogle<\/i> waar dit presies is en watter tye mens dit kan besoek,\u201d onthou Morkel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk sien toe die labirint word \u2018die grootste spekboom-labirint in die w\u00eareld\u2019 genoem. Voordat ek egter so ver kon kom om dit te gaan besoek, het ek gesien die labirint bestaan nie meer nie. Die egpaar wat die labirint gebou en in stand gehou het, het verhuis en dit het tot niet gegaan. Ek het \u2019n foto van die labirint verkry en gedink: \u2018Wat van die kleinste spekboom-labirint in die w\u00eareld?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het dadelik aan die werk gespring en moes innoveer deur \u2019n groter vo\u00eblbak, in plaas van \u2019n gewone bonsai-bak te gebruik. Morkel het gate in die bak geboor en die bak met grond gevul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daarna het hy spekboomsteggies in die vorm van die oorspronklike labirint geplant. \u201cEk het die labirint op papier wat dieselfde grootte as die bak was, geteken. Daarna het ek die papier op die bak gesit, gaatjies op die lyne in die papier gemaak en die spekboomsteggies in die gaatjies geplant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMettertyd het die papier vergaan. Alhoewel die meeste steggies gevat het, het ek \u2019n groot aantal ekstra steggies in \u2019n ander bak gemaak om te gebruik vir ingeval van die steggies in die labirint sou doodgaan. Laasgenoemde het wel gebeur, so ek moes oor tyd heen baie steggies wat doodgegaan het, met nuwes vervang. Daar is net so oor die 230 spekboompies in die labirint.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morkel bieg die projek het baie meer tyd geverg as wat mens sou dink en dat hy dikwels wou tou opgooi, maar hy het deurgedruk en is baie trots op die eindproduk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wou nie \u2019n heining van spekboompies bou nie, maar ek wou elke spekboompie \u2019n afsonderlike miniatuur-bonsai maak. Om dit reg te kry was geweldig tydrowend. Ek het dikwels gedink om maar die labirint te los!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie grootste uitdaging was om te verhoed dat die bonsai\u2019s (wat sowat 3 cm hoog is) sytakke vorm. Sytakke sou die gange tussen die rye toegroei. Di\u00e9 wat spekbome ken, sal weet dat spekbome graag nuwe botsels aan die stam vorm. Ek moes, veral die laaste paar weke voor die uitstalling in Stellenbosch, elke dag met \u2019n sk\u00earpunt of mes nuwe botsels afkrap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHierdie stukkies nuwe groei moes met \u2019n tweezer<\/i> verwyder word. Ek moes ook so fyn as moontlik klippies kry om tussen die boompies te gooi, juis omdat die boompies self ook kleiner as \u2018normale\u2019 bonsai\u2019s is. Intussen moet die labirint ook skoon gehou word van onkruid wat oral in die bak opgekom het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dan was daar natuurlik ook die onsekerheid of die skepping wel \u2019n bonsai is, maar dit is gou deur Pretorius uitgeklaar toe Morkel \u2019n foto van die labirint met hom deel. \u201cHy was baie opgewonde (soos hy maar oor enige bonsai is) en het ges\u00ea ek moet die labirint vir die ABC6-konvensie inskryf,\u201d onthou Morkel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wou graag h\u00ea dat hy en ander die labirint in lewende lywe sien en het dit na ons laaste maandvergadering voor die konvensie geneem. Die kenners het gereken dit is iets besonders en ek moet hom wel op die konvensie uitstal. Op die ou end het die beoordelaars ook gereken die labirint is iets besonders en het die labirint die Forbidden Branch-trofee gewen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Pretorius word die trofee toegeken vir uitsonderlike vindingrykheid en kreatiwiteit. Dit word toegeken aan mense wat iets skep wat buite die boks is, deur \u2019n paneel bestaande uit die president van die African Bonsai Association (ABA), die president van die South African Bonsai Association en twee oorsese bonsai-kunstenaars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle was eenparig in hul besluit dat Morkel die trofee verdien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pretorius vertel meer oor die geskiedenis van hierdie merkwaardige trofee: \u201cIn 2017 by die agtste W\u00eareldkonferensie in Saitama, Japan, is Suid-Afrika deur Hannes Fritz verteenwoordig. Hy het op die verhoog aan \u2019n boom gewerk uit die kwekery van Kimura, wat beskou word as die top-kunstenaar in Japan. Om te s\u00ea sy senuwees was gedaan, is nie oordrewe nie. Dink net daar sit sowat 2 000 Japannese en volg jou elke beweging . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHannes het die boom begin ontwerp en n\u00e1 sowat \u2019n uur vir Kimura nader geroep. Hy wou \u2019n nogal stewige tak afhaal en wou weet of Kimura saamstem. Die vertaler het aan hom Hannes se plan vertel en hy het eenvoudig weggestap. Hannes was heeltemal uit die veld geslaan en het maar met bedrading voortgegaan. Hy het egter elke keer teruggekeer na die problematiese tak.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pretorius s\u00ea hy het weer vir Kimura nader geroep met dieselfde versoek, maar dit het dieselfde gevolge gehad. \u201cToe hy daarna die tak afknip het die Japannese skare hoorbaar hulle asem ingetrek! Nadat hy die boom klaar ontwerp het, het Kimura weer op die verhoog verskyn en met sy hande agter sy rug om die boom gestap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy het toe aan die voorkant van die boom gaan staan en gebuig en toe weggestap. Tot vandag weet die bonsai-gemeenskap nie of dit sy goedkeuring weggedra het nie. Jonathan Cain, president van ABA, het toe die tak gaan haal en teruggebring na SA en daarvan die trofee gemaak. Dit is dus \u2019n ideale trofee vir mense wat stroom-op swem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En dis juis die rede waarom Morkel se kreatiewe projek die trofee verdien het. Maar gaan hy in die toekoms daarmee voort? \u201cEk moet nog besluit oor die pad vorentoe met die labirint \u2013 dit voel vir my dit is te \u2019n tydrowende werk om dit in stand te hou,\u201d skerts hy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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