What do you do to get inspired?
I recently attended the Denver Botanical Gardens for the new Bill Hosokawa Bonsai Pavilion and Tea Garden with an expanded Japanese Garden (Shofu-En). Kizuna, meaning “the bonds between people” in Japanese, celebrates the influence Japan has had on the West with a presentation of large art installations in bamboo throughout the gardens and floating in the ponds by internationally-known artists Tetsunori Kawana and Stephen Talasnik. I spent hours exploring and photographing the bamboo’s power and versatility in a variety of forms, including living plant displays.