So what you see is a gift, a gift from my wife and myself’s, our gift to her sister and her husband, a gift given on the occasion of their 20th anniversary, a gift, by necessity, wrapped in a very, very large box. I think this is the largest single item that either of us have ever had to ship, other than perhaps a car – and other people did that for us. What is this gift? It’s “Petrified Coral”:
For scale, it’s the artwork you see on this wall:
This “Petrified Coral” piece is one of a series that Sandi’s done – one I own:
Sandi worked on a third one, but it didn’t work out the way she wanted, so she mutated it into another piece.
With art this large, normal market forces start to break down. Regardless of what YOU want to pay for it, there’s a certain minimum amount that it costs to ship it, even to store it, so if you’re not willing to pay for it, you can’t play. Worse, Sandi likes working in this scale, but getting good at this scale requires working in this scale, so she’s got to store a lot of large pieces.
We’re happy to give “Petrified Coral 2” to Sandi’s sister, but we’re also taking this as an exercise in finding out how to ship these large pieces efficiently. The normal USPS or FedEx route seems too expensive, and not even Greyhound could fit it (yes, they ship). But people solve this problem, so we’re doing the research now.
If successful, then I’m sure Sandi would be happy to ship a large artwork to YOU.
(But not Petrified Coral 1. That one’s MINE.)
-the Centaur
