Incense Cedar – Survivor of the Sierra

Botanical Name: Calocedrus decurrens

Common Name: Incense Cedar

Story of the Tree

This Incense Cedar was collected in 2001 from a Lake Tahoe home—with permission—and has been trained as a bonsai since 2006.

Over the years, it has been wired and rewired, slowly shaped through time. Jin and shari were added to reflect the tree’s rugged origin, and to tell the story of survival, not just style.

The artist’s goal has always been clear:

To evoke the beauty of a High Sierra tree—weathered by winter cold, shaped by mountain winds, and defined by the slow, unrelenting passage of time.

This tree doesn’t just resemble the Sierra—it remembers it.

Exhibited by: Christine