Every bonsai—traditionally—has been designed with a “front.” But what if you could have multiple fronts? David Umemoto’s cast concrete “Hanging Gardens” (2024) with detachable risers, allows this display to be reconfigured, challenging the traditional notion of a fixed bonsai design. Pacific Bonsai Museum Curator, Aarin Packard, commissioned Montreal sculptor David Umemoto to create three, reconfigurable pots for a deconstructed Black Hills Spruce forest bonsai (Picea glauca densata) in training