THE LAB Session 3
Exploration & Inquiry | August 17, 2019 | Fauntleroy and Junsei Houses Designed by George Suyama FAIA with Suyama Peterson Deguchi.
‘How do you break the bounds of institutionalized norms and explore a practice that questions all of those norms in order to move the art forward?’ is the question that Pacific Bonsai Museum’s LAB project asks, hypothesizing that one answer might come from outsider perspectives, particularly those of designers from various disciplines in which design principles have evolved and matured over time in the ferment of design critique. Artists and design professionals from the realms of architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture, glass art, graphic design, design writing, and bonsai convened at architect George Suyama’s richly-minimalistic Fauntleroy and Junsei Houses in West Seattle, Washington to view the LAB works in progress thoughtfully positioned throughout the houses and comment on them as artistic works.
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Inside the Fauntleroy House by George Suyama FAIA.
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Ryan Neil describes his Limber Pine bonsai to the LAB Session 3 participants.
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Ryan Neil and the Limber Pine bonsai with container by Ron Lang.
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Heitzman presents his stand at the LAB Session 3
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Participants discuss this LAB composition in progress with the LAB artists.
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George Suyama, FAIA and Aarin Packard.
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LAB composition in progress at the Fauntleroy House.
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The LAB Session 3 moves to the Junsei House to discuss the third LAB composition in progress.
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Two possible succulents Ryan Neil is considering for the Lang | Heitzman Pot | Stand combo shown from above.
Read, “Report from the LAB Session 3: Breaking the bounds of bonsai with interdisciplinary designers,” by Katherine Wimble Fox. This article was published in Bonsai Journal, Volume 53 Number 4, pages 28-33, Copyright American Bonsai Society (2019).
