Tags: [whimsical], [magic], [plant]

Art & Soul- Eclectic Goods | Ogunquit, Maine 10/2/2024 2:46PM

about 1.5 ft. less than a lb.

materials: stick, wood, paint, gemstone

A decorative planter, a stain seeping up from the bottom of the stick displays where it was submerged in soil. Fashioned out of a stick, attached is a wooden piece sawed jaggedly into a star. It resembles a magic wand. A marble glistens in the center. I imagine it holds the magic that helps the plants grow.

I read somewhere in folklore (the internet) that wands were fashioned from found sticks and were used to ward off threats in nature. Somewhere between the oldest times of man and the olden times of man, they began to be associated with the everythingness that magic can offer a sorcerer. Sometime after that, we manufacture bedazzled plastic wands for kids at a mere $4.99 on amazon. 

What’s special about this crafted planter is that it has a human’s touch: whittled, handpainted, and glued. The edges are striped, the face is splattered, and the swirl into a gemstone leaves little imagination to wonder how it was created. However, a tree died so that it can live amongst life. 

The shapes of leaves are some of the most impressive natural systems of geometry to exist, and yet an Ogunquit store-owner thought that this star should live amongst them. Isn’t that precious? And no thief will take it.