Image Credit (in order of appearance): The Doll Flowers, Ginkgo Telegraph

While nothing is permanent in this world, and transience is inevitable, for just that split second, the art of bonsai manages to capture the essence of control through the very delicate balance between the natural and manmade.

I'm particularly intrigued to by the work of a Japanese botanist - Kobayashi, of whom I have just discovered via Remodelista, particularly by how he has reinvented this very traditional art form into something that is both true to its roots, yet has a very modern feel to it; a nouveau version. Very nice indeed.