Does anyone else ever look here?

Bought a nice salicaria ficus at Jim Smiths. Nice nebari… a real beast to root prune…………………but worth it. Here is a picture from the front.
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Here it is rotated 90 degrees and then from the same side after cutting off the short, thick back branch.
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Here’s the tree wired and in the pot after removing most of the top.
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That was fun….bet it looks really good in two years. rick