Saturday I went with Caren to the demonstrations that are a part of the World Tai Chi day - http://www.worldtaichiday-akl.org/
Very interesting with all the different styles doing massed displays. Each school had their own style, even when doing the same 'form' there were variations between schools. Some of the uniforms - very Chinese with tunic and loose trousers - were very colourful.
There were none who were doing the 42 form exactly the same as the SIng Ong Tai Chi school I learn with.
I have started another coloured pencil work of leaves. It is hard to take a photo where the leaves have a natural composition and if the sun is shining, removing one or two from the composition, or rearranging them is impossible because it is too hard to work out the three-dimensional sapcing and the affect on shadows onto other leaves.
There is a bank near work and the council workers have trimmed branches off one side of some trees because they were getting close to power lines. They are diciduous trees but I noticed some new shoots even now in autumn where the tree is trying to replace branches. And how do they know the branches have gone? How do they know they are now unbalanced or have a hole in their side that needs to be filled up so they have a nice round shape?
Can anyone tell me? And how do they know to space their branches out anyway and grow to a certain shape depending on their type?
2 comments:
Maybe they have some kind of tree DNA? Or perhaps it's just like hair and fingernails... keeps growing no matter what you do!
Could be DNA but it must have sensors for balance as well as light.
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