The Spalla Merkaba
For the Teacher and Student
Curiosity, it turns out, has a shape.
Wonder that makes sense
The best moment in learning is when the world turns out to be understandable. Count the spheres, find the axes, and the star answers back: yes, that is right. Beauty and truth were the same thing all along.
The moment it all makes sense
Every teacher lives for the moment a student's face changes: the instant an idea stops being words and becomes real. The Spalla Merkaba is made for that moment. It turns geometry from something on a page into something in your hands.
And it keeps giving. Each time you look there is another pattern, another symmetry, another question worth asking. It is the rare object that makes people want to learn more.

For classrooms, departments and workshops, contact the founders below.
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 Seeker
An object for meditation and awareness.
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.
