Welcome, GHSers! This is fellow-member Randy Smith presenting a February 2024 “MAJOR SALE” edition of my website.
The missus has urged me to try harder to clear some shelf space in our now crowded condo, so I’m offering you the following sweet deal: For $66 this month you can pick any two of the ten statues appearing below on this CURRENt OFFERS page and I’ll cover the special packing and shipping costs needed to tip the chances in your favor that those statues arrive at your residence in good condition.
In other words – considering that the packing materials/shipping charges I pay for such deliveries run to either side of $60, you will be paying actually next to nothing, nothing at all, or less than nothing for the statues themselves – that full $66 quite possibly going to transport reimbursement.
“The catch”? Yes, there’s one. I can’t guarantee that the delivery pros won’t abuse your package accidentally. And, with the rock-bottom total price I’m offering, there will be no refund to you should either statue sustain damage en route. Please proceed to read my ESSENtIALSpage, which I believe should comfort you about the level of risk involved, versus the obvious reward offered through this sale.
Also, if you’d like to see a photo catalog of a great deal more of my works, choose the CAtEGORIES menu-link above. And do look at the Q&As page as well before making up your mind about whether you wish to be a buyer of my wares. Thanks in advance for your time and interest.
TRINITY (February sale-deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
TRINITY represents the oneness of God the Father, the Holy Ghost, and a prostrate Christ – post-Crucifixion – through its three-sided composition.
Contemplate the meaning of the “Oncore” balls up high, and of the “Bridgestone” balls which ‘cement’ the statue, along with the “Vice” ball standing in for Man’s sins being cast away. Click RELIGION for more.
CHARGING (February sale-deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
CHARGING attempts to capture the ultra anger of a bull ‘seeing red.’ In this design there are “Nike” swoosh balls echoing the animal’s horns, on-point letters and image, and an overall structure which utilizes a series of right-pointing “V”s to represent the creature’s single-minded, arrow-like focus on goring its prey. For more, click OLE!
IDOL (February sale-deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
IDOL features its title character focusing on a passionate young thing in front of him, with no regard to the little old lady also wishing his attention.
Note the antiquated “Top-Flite” ball that marks the oldster and don’t miss the sign of her wisdom as symbolized by the ‘fox ball.’ Meanwhile, in comparison with his young admirer, whose vitality is expressed through the red-check orb and a naughty number, the idol has no color to offer — only “Mojo,” a spell he somehow CASTS.
TIPPING POINT (February sale-deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
TIPPING POINT illustrates the psychological equivalent of the saying “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
Allow me to thank the anonymous artist who penned that ticking timebomb on his ball — my inspiration for this work. Note as well the placement of the “NOODLE” ball in support of this statue alluding to brain matter.
For more details click on the “CAtEGORIES” button at the top of this page; then on the PSYCHOLOGY link which will appear on the following page.
POOH-BAH (February sale-deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
Defined as self-important, pompous, an ineffectual and/or corrupt holder of offices within a bureaucracy, our POOH-BAH is pictured as such through a number of design touches.
Note the “CAT” ball cradled at lap level of this sitting do-nothing — that image a classic motif for villains. Across his face is stamped “SUPERSOFT” — no hard worker he, though he wears some cap of office.
In fact, you’ll find multiple balls bearing the word “SOFT” in this design, as well as the meaningful “TaylorMade 0” ball. For more on POOH-BAH, click here.
ACROBATS (February-sale deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
The humor in two standing ACROBATS straining to hold their chubby third member aloft is conveyed through the two contorted figures in white calling on “MOJO” i.e. supernatural powers, to see them through, while their weighty star cries for more “PRACTICE, PRACTICE!” balls).
Alas, a “CHAOS” ball as well appears — to foretell that a tumbling down is imminent. For more details, click on GRAVITY.
PUNCH (February-sale deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
At the center of this PUNCH statue are a ‘stagecoach ball’ adjacent to a red—and—blue stamped one, meant to symbolize a racing heart pumping extra blood to the muscles of an about-to-be fighter.
His old-fashioned dimpled head points to this man being an experienced brawler –- not a young hothead! And his name? Hmm … an autobiographical allusion? Click on MACHO for more details about PUNCH.
RISE (February sale-deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
In RISE a white-eyed evil one calls out for an unearthly being to emerge from a ‘cauldron ball.’
The unholy concocter is joined in his/her chant by two lesser demons, their singing mouths indicated on the left by a sliced ball and on the right by a black-ringed one – appropriately of the ‘MAXFLI’ brand. Click WICKED for more info about RISE.
PATIENCE (February-sale deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
PATIENCE is a much sought-after virtue in many Eastern religions;hence my use of a Hindu-looking composition for this statue.
Note the flow of ‘sign-posts’ from bottom to top in this work. Consider the shell emblem and sand-covered balls indicating a low beginning, (the baby’s constant cries of frustration), leading to youthful bouts of pic, (orange balls.)
Farther on, a first but fleet tasting of serenity, symbolized by a single green orb. And at last, the achievement of at least a more subdued reaction to stress, this state being suggested by the placement of a duller orange ball atop the work. For more enlightenment, press NIRVANA.
ANGRY (February-sale deal: Pick two of this month’s featured statues for $66 total, which includes all material and shipping costs as well!)
ANGRY depicts the wrath of one person — is it a woman? — toward another — an unsuspecting victim?
The use of contrasting ball-hues offers an obvious aid to this interpretation, along with the key placement of the green “VICE” ball opposite a dirtied orange orb. for more details, click on WRATH.
