Provided by the artist - Sarah Hobbs Sublimation - order and focus central to maintaining mental state, and effort to order mental space so that unwanted thoughts/desires do not enter,
Putting something in you life that so consumes you that it replaces (at least for a while) something you lack, miss, or has gone and left a gap in your life. Raising bonsai trees takes a lot of time and effort, caring for 38 of them, well, that can certainly take the place of a lost relationship, job, or dream (at least for a little while)
Source: From a lecture given by Sarah Hobbs at Augusta State University (29 September 2011)
