θόλος*. Cathedral (Magic Sticks) (2025) Design por Anatolii Zhamoido

θόλος*. Cathedral (Magic Sticks) 2011-2025
Piggy bank.
Artists: Zhamoido Anatolii & Bulba Natalia
Original Design: 2011
Completion: 2025
Dimensions: 290 mm (diameter) × 230 mm (height)
Weight: 0.664 kg

Materials:
• Eternity
• Ice cream sticks (3 types)
• Wooden coffee stirrers
• Wooden skewers
• Mini natural craft sticks
• Toothpicks
• Wooden beads
• Computer graphics
• Glue
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Description:
This sculptural object is both a miniature cathedral and a piggy bank, bridging sacred geometry with playful functionality.
Built entirely from everyday wooden sticks—ice cream sticks, stirrers, skewers, and toothpicks—it exemplifies the philosophy of the Magic Sticks movement: transforming the humble and disposable into the timeless and transcendent.
“THOLOS” refers to an imagined land or future, where architecture is born not of steel and stone, but of patience, play, and imagination.
The form recalls both classical temples and digital schematics, echoing ancient rituals and speculative futures. Each stick is hand-cut, shaped, and placed with intentional rhythm, creating a structure that radiates harmony and wonder.
Beneath the whimsical exterior lies a practical secret: the object functions as a piggy bank. But what it stores is more than coins — it holds memory, time, intention.
Assembled over several months of focused, meditative work, this piece invites the viewer to see “waste” as potential, and to rediscover how slow creation can shape meaning.
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🔸 “Magic Sticks” is an emerging genre exploring the poetic and symbolic dimensions of overlooked craft materials — where each small stick becomes a line of code, a brick of thought, or a wand of quiet revolution.
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*Tholos, tholos (ancient Greek θόλος) in ancient Greek architecture is a round structure (sanctuary, tomb, monument, music hall), often with a colonnade. Unlike the monopteros, which is also round in plan and has no internal walls, the classical tholos has walls. If there are columns or semi-columns in the interior, they do not belong to the same order as the external columns. In the Greek era, tholoses were often cult buildings (for example, the asklepion in Epidaurus), but in the pre-Hellenistic era they were not temples.
Originally developed as part of an educational project in the form of books and creativity kit published in Ukraine and RF (before the war), this version of the artwork represents a full realization of the concept. The object stands as both an artifact and an invitation: to rediscover wonder in the smallest materials and the slowest gestures.
A step-by-step illustrated guide to creating the works (in the 2008-2016 versions) is available in PDF format and can be ordered directly from the author.
The guide is offered in Ukrainian or Russian (and can be easily translated into your preferred language - for example, using ChatGPT).
Price: €5

In silent fire, the temple gleams,
So small in size — yet vast in thought.
Athena watches over dreams,
Where ancient truths and threads are caught.
γνῶθι σεαυτόν, λέγει τὸ μαντεῖον σοφίας·
σκιὰ γάρ ἐστι λόγος ἔργου, ὥσπερ φαντάσματος αὐγή.
ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τέχνη μακρά —
καὶ ἔν τοις σμικροῖς φανερὰ γίγνεται ἀλήθεια.
οἱ ναοὶ μικροὶ — ἀλλ᾽ ἔνδοξοι, πλήρεις θαύματος·
πυραμίδες ἐκ σπίθων, θεαί ἐκ χανδάλων.
ὃ δεῖ γενέσθαι, ταῦτα καὶ γενήσεται•
ἡ μοῖρα οὐκ ὑπνώττει — τέχνη ἀναμιμνήσκει τὸ θείον.
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Γνῶθι σεαυτόν, λόγος ἔργου σκιά·
Ἃ δεῖ γενέσθαι, ταῦτα καὶ γενήσεται•
Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρά•
Ἀθηνᾶς φῶς λάμπει ἐν καρδίᾳ.

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