Avocado Ornament

An avocado ornament in hand-blown glass — halved, pit painted on in careful detail, the green shading done entirely by hand over glass shaped in the old method. Loop attached, ready for its branch, and quietly confident about being there. Before it was toast the avocado was just a fruit, which people ate without commentary or cultural significance or anyone writing a column about it in a newspaper. It was a fruit that was also somehow a vegetable that was also somehow a lifestyle, and it has been here for ten thousand years and has survived worse and is not particularly concerned about what happened in the last decade. Buy this for the person who loved avocados before they were a thing. They wanted the recognition longer than they would ever admit, and a glass avocado on the tree is exactly the quiet recognition they have earned. The Royal Ontario Museum curates objects that outlast their moment; the avocado has been doing that since the Cenozoic.