Spectrum

A behind the scenes look at Ryan Neil's awe-inspiring exhibit, Spectrum, held at Wieden+Kennedy in Portland, OR - May, 2016. 

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"Spectrum is a show that opens up a lot of opportunity to be a little bit more playful and creative. We really played with color in this concrete space to try and bring a lot of warmth and a lot of life to it.

And then, played with color in terms of the trees that we're presenting to show yet another facet of how you can contextually represent bonsai. To use bonsai to not only discuss culture and nature, but also to start discussing its ability to contribute to art in the vast amount of ways that bonsai can interact with art and design.

Bonsai is yet another creative space to explore even fundamental design concepts, such as color." - Ryan Neil 

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"Bonsai is yet another creative space
to explore even fundamental design concepts,
such as color."

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Notes:

Photography by Arthur Hitchcock 
American Shokunin II - Evolving the Artform - A film by Ryan Bush

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