Caravel of Shadows and Light (2025) Design door Anatolii Zhamoido

Caravel of Shadows and Light"
Created by: Anatolii Zhamoido & Natalia Bulba
Series: Magic Sticks
Year of Original Design: 2025
Materials used:
• Ice cream sticks (3 types)
• Wooden coffee stirrers (2 types)
• Wooden skewers
• Mini natural craft sticks
• Toothpicks (3 types)
• Wooden beads
• Wooden clothespins
• Wooden components from a massage brush and comb
• Matches
• Conceptual essence: Eternity
Dimensions: 225 × 575 × 500 mm
Weight: 1.133 kg

"Caravel of Shadows and Light" is a visionary sculptural piece by Anatolii Zhamoido and Natalia Bulba, part of their acclaimed "Magic Sticks" series. Rooted in the symbolic fusion of ephemerality and permanence, this work repurposes everyday materials—ice cream sticks, coffee stirrers, beads, matches, and more—into a meticulously detailed maritime vessel that drifts between dream and history.
Originally conceived in 2010 as a minimalist form, the caravel has since matured into a robust, dimensional allegory: a ship as archive, a memory engine, a bridge between shadow and illumination. The process took months, and the ship's hull, rigging, and dynamic sails hint at the infinite journeys hidden within us all.
It is not merely a model; it is a meditation on fragility and craftsmanship, on the stories we sail through, and the hands that carry us.
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This sculptural model of a sailing ship, crafted from wooden sticks, is a true hymn to hands, memory, and imagination. At first glance, it appears like a vessel born from a child’s dream—fragile, almost toy-like. But upon closer inspection, it reveals itself as a work with a philosophical subtext.
The form alludes to the classic caravel—a ship of voyages, discoveries, and irreversible change. The sails are not mere functional parts; they evoke a cloud of memory that lifts us beyond time. They ripple slightly, as if fluttering between worlds—past and future, dream and matter.
Assembled from tiny fragments—sticks, each seemingly insignificant on its own—this ship symbolizes the idea that complexity can be built from the simplest, and strength from the fragile.
This vessel doesn’t sail on water—it sails in the imagination. It could be Noah’s Ark preserving beauty, a pirate ship carrying the freedom of thought, or Dante’s boat crossing the boundaries between worlds.
Symbolic subtext:
• Wood – memory and roots.
• Sails – spirit, aspiration, ideas.
• Absence of water – a sign that the journey is not geographical, but internal.
• Light and shadow – the struggle and harmony we carry into every voyage.
This ship is not made for the ocean. It was created to cross the silence between thought and realization.

To Sail Between the Light and Shade
The ship sets forth on whispering waves,
Each plank a line, each mast a phrase.
A caravel not made for trade,
But for the myths that never fade.
In every sail, a breath once held.
In every deck, a tale repelled.
The voyage is the sculptor’s soul,
The course — eternity’s patrol.
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Wood remembers what trees forget
The silence before felling,
The yearning for sky.
Now sails are dreaming,
Now stillness can fly.
What once was matchstick,
Is compass and song.
No voyage is final,
No voyage is wrong.

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