The Cathedral of Truth Refuge (2025) Design / Projektowanie użytkowe autorstwa Анатолий Жамойдо

Title: The Cathedral of Truth Refuge
Artists: Anatolii Zhamoido & Natalia Bulba
Series: Magic Sticks
Original Design Year: 2025
Medium & Materials:
• Eternity (conceptual essence)
• Ice cream sticks (3 types)
• Wooden coffee stirrers
• Wooden skewers
• Mini natural craft sticks
• Toothpicks (3 types)
• Wooden beads
• Wooden clothespins
• Wooden components from a massage brush and comb
• Straw from a traditional broom
• Matches

Dimensions: 275 × 319 × 403 mm
Weight: 1.025 kg

This work continues the development of the Magic Wands series, exploring the full creative potential of the materials used.
It is based on the earlier model The Cathedral, created in 2010, which was constructed using only glue and ice cream sticks. That limitation was intentional — the original piece was part of a series of books and creative kits designed so that any child (or anyone interested in creativity and learning) could replicate it by following step-by-step illustrated instructions.
For this new version, no such constraints applied. Instead of a few days, the construction of this cathedral took several months.
The Cathedral includes an open inner space that can be filled or customized (see the photo above). Dimensions of the cross-shaped interior: 18.7 x 7.7 cm + 18.2 x 8.11 cm; height at the central peak is approximately 15 cm.
The metal figurines of the King, Queen, and Bishop are not part of the core work, but may be added optionally, as illustrated in the image.
Gothic reverie constructed in miniature: hundreds of natural wooden elements form a cathedral designed not just as shelter, but as sanctuary of clarity and remembrance.
This sculpture is the pinnacle of the "Magic Sticks" series by Zhamoido & Bulba.
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Sanctuary of Light
Light carved softly in sticks and thread,
Forms a prayer where no words are said.
Each arch a whisper, each tower breath —
Resisting silence, resisting death.

Was truth a beam or broken shard?
This house of wood still stands on guard.
No one is sure what dwells within,
But footsteps echo where truth has been.

A cross of light and fragile wood,
In place where shadows once had stood.
And from the roof to open nave,
A soul may shelter. Or be brave.
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Зібрані з попелу палички -
Вірші дерев, що мовчали,
Тепер виблискують в тиші
Шпилями храм увінчали

В його тиші— жодна сповідь,
Лиш вітри з дощем вгорі...
Піднімаються поволі
Стовпи неба — догори.

Світло різьблене у дереві тихо сяє,
Як чаша довіри, що серце тримає.
Де ніч не погуба, де душа ціла,
Летить в Піднебесся, бо має Крила.

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