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Article: OUT ON A LIMB DAN ROBINSON DEFIES BONSAI TRADITIONS TO FASHION ART OUT OF NATURE'S MUTANTS.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 6, 1996
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Shredding a tree with a chain saw is generally not a popular move in bonsai, but Dan Robinson has never been a conventional guy.
The year was 1978. A scrappy, self-taught bonsai artist, Robinson was giving one of his first demonstrations at a prestigious convention.
He pulled out a 6-foot-tall Hollywood juniper. He pulled out a 15-inch electric Toro chain saw.
The audience, used to a less vigorous pruning, gasped.
Robinson let it rip.
``They had never seen anything like it,'' he recalls. ``A lot of them said, `The tree is dead,' and left before I was done.''
The tree survived, and so has Robinson.