This is a piece that sits next to my desk all day, and I don't really pay much attention to it except to note that its very pretty.  My other roommate made this piece as a means to hold her jewelry, but its really quite a beautiful piece of work, looking like a tree.  The main point of this piece was simply for function -she needed a place to put all of her jewelry, but she arranged it so that the display of the jewelry was in itself a piece of art.  Its grounds in nature, the tree shape the stand took, is always a soothing and interesting piece to look at, and I personally wonder at how such a simply created piece can look so beautiful every once in a while.  

The books on the shelf behind are also wonderful pieces to read, whenever there is time.  Words are just as easily considered sculpted art as a statue, after all, and each book always leaves behind an impression or idea.  While I don't have the time to read them as a used to do, and sometimes electronic books are more convenient, there is something to be said for the experience of hand-turning pages and the sentimentality which comes with it.  Not to mention, each and every book contains a message from an author, which a reader will experience whilst reading.