Bonsai

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Anyone who knows me will testify that I am a deeply spiritual person. Over years of study, devotion, personal denial and temperence, I have gained an extensive knowledge of many belief systems and a great respect for religion of all kinds, and the values and traditions they represent. I am equally comfortable in a church as I am in a temple, mosque, up a mountain with my head shaved and wrapped in an orange sheet or in a police cell after a heavy evening expanding my mind on an astral plane trying to explain that I don't know how those mushrooms got in my car and could I please have my pants back.

It is so easy in this modern day of email, intrawebs, internets, faxes, brushless tip-ex and mobile phones that allow you to send a small grainy image across a room for a pound to forget the spiritual side that makes us what we are. It is in the ordered chaos of the workplace that I find a little Zen goes a long way, and no two things go together as well as the ancient art of hachi-no-ki (or bonsai as it became known in the 19th century) and the ubiquitous starchy tuber known as the potato.

So when things get me down, I shut the office door, sprinkle a few jasmine leaves into my tea pot and spend a few moments nurturing my Bonsai Spud. Once you have seen the beauty of nature on this scale, you can’t help but believe.

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Photos

Fool
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

The Future
"The Future is just like now, but a bit later on"

Fish
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man how to fish and you keep him out of your hair all weekend"

Cock
"A man can have many hens, but no more than two cocks"