The Spalla Merkaba
For the Seeker
A small cosmos to return to.
Stillness
It asks nothing of you. It simply keeps its order while your mind slows down to meet it. The noise falls away, and there is the star, and there is your breath.
A place to come back to
Some objects fill a room. This one quiets it. Set it where your eye will find it in the morning and again at night, and let it become a place you return to.
It rests in a Stargate: a clear glass portal with the star suspended inside. Inside and outside, above and below, light and shadow, all held in balance. Whenever you need the reminder, it is there: balance is possible.
Portal or Stargate: inside versus outside.
Starburst effect shown for illustration only, not included
with product. Spalla Merkaba enlarged to show detail.
Spalla Merkaba: BartStar in a Stargate/Portal
People come to the Spalla Merkaba for its beauty as a form; for its geometric precision, drawn from the Platonic solids; as an object that helps one raise consciousness; and as something to meditate on.
$99.99
Limited Edition: Nos. 9 to 99
Handcrafted, never mass-produced. Each of the first 99 is assembled by hand, then numbered, signed and dated by the artist, Barton James Christner. Be among the first to own one.
Custom-made to order. Please allow 2 to 3 weeks for shipment and delivery.
The same star, seen another way
Other ways in
The Collector
An art object, placed sphere by sphere by law.
ForThe Historian
A form carried across civilizations, with its record.
ForThe Teacher and Student
Geometry with a correct answer.
ForThe Gift
A small star of the heavens, in glass.
ForThe Designer
Eight colors, one law, no mirror image.
ForThe Mysteries
A symbol with a long and remarkable record.
Works Cited
- Spalla Historical and Metaphysical Learning Institute, LLC, business plan v12.3, 2026.
- Andromeda Galaxy photograph: Adam Evans, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.