It almost sounds like you like the idea garuf?
I do, I think for too long we've been copying what Amano did rather than learning from the nature that surrounds US, A japanese forest is hugely different from a british forest, which is in turn different to a Croat or Turkish forest, you can replace forest for near enough any element of nature and I think that's starting to show, the demographic of the person isn't important it's what they have learnt from their surroundings. How many people here actually go out and look at nature and take it back to their tanks? Very few I bet, How many see an Amano tank and try and replicate it? Almost all of us.
Imitation of Amano works? how can you better Nature?
Here I think you're missing a vital and intrinsic element of Amanos work, they are simply not nature, they are an artistic representation of nature by a singular man based on his very personal observations of nature, the two are not the same, Amano's tanks are like say, a Turner Landscape, simply because the subject matter is "nature" it doesn't make them nature or even natural, it makes them an artistic representation of what they see. By this statement you're implying that Amanos tanks are nature and that this nature is universal to us all, this simply is not the case as anyone who can tell you the difference between say, Wales' Nature and that of the Midlands. A Point you also raise is that "nature" trumps all, which in itself means that any tank regardless of creator is always going to be inferior to the real deal. This is an art form and as such trends are perceivable, it's not a case of pigeon-holing because of the persons birth country, it's identifying common traits in the works, the aesthetic style and their influences and then drawing from it to identify what makes it stand out, if this weren't the case we'd have no impressionists, no russian futurists, no brutalist or no Raphaelites because if you take your point of view because by differentiating their styles would be pigeonholing.
It also sounds like you'd like to pigeon hole everyone. So, for us 'Europeans, we should have our own style you reckon?...So i guess, strictly speaking i can fit into the 'European' look and the 'Asian' Nature style yes?...i am after all half Malaysian
So where do you draw your inspiration? My point here is most certainly not where the person is born or their heritage, this is belittling my point which was simply that where you are in the world affects your perceptions of the world and will influence your representation of it, take for example, Luis Barrigan of Mexico, he wouldn't have used the colours he did through his designs if he was from Basingstoke because the nature and culture around him is so very different we're all no different.
just because folk live in Europe, why should this mean a new style? the world is one!
So folk that live near the Sahara desert good in actual fact create the most unbelievable land based vista seen in a tank....A pile of sand!
It's bonkers mate, and many points are being utterly missed.
I'd like to hear these other points?
An irrational point but from the jist of it's intent, yes I think they would interpret what they know as nature into a tank and as such develop a new aesthetic style, I think it would be totally ridiculous to suggest that they wouldn't allow what they know of nature to influence their designs, again this is an art form and subjective to absolutely everyone in it and a very personal interpretation of everything they know about the world that surrounds them. The world may well be one but there are parts of it I will never see and as such will never influence me also by implying it's one this really means nothing, we maybe a common species and we may now be linked via all sorts of technology but ultimately we are the only element of it that are truly linked in a way we can perceive, nature carries on in it's own niches and carries on with the process of surviving long enough to pass on the genes they carry and adapting to the niche as they go, if the world was truly one then a singular species of tree, moss, grass would only need to exist because the niches and variences that make this world so powerfully brilliant wouldn't have even happened.