#Time and Price Squaring

[signode-blog]

Basics of Gann Theory

1. Gann’s Law of Vibration: Gann’s Law of Vibration is a foundational principle in his trading and market analysis philosophy. This concept is based on the idea that the financial markets are not random but follow specific patterns and cycles. According to Gann, these patterns and cycles can be understood and predicted through the application of mathematical and harmonic principles. Key Points…

[sbrown82]

Written by: Megan Maher

She has no name. No plaque. No backstory carved in stone. And yet, she rises. Twelve feet tall, calm and composed, right in the heart of New York City located in Times Square. A Black woman cast in bronze, not performing, not protesting, just present. Her stillness feels louder than the flashing lights around her. Her quiet becomes the disruption in a place built on noise and motion.

Art often asks, “What does this mean?” But this piece asks something else: “Who is she? Why does she feel so familiar, so necessary, in this space?”

In the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, Qubilah Shabazz asks, “How does royalty stomp around in the mud and still walk with grace?” Grounded in the Stars feels like an answer. She stands, rooted. Regal without needing a crown. Graceful not in spite of the mud, but because of it.

And where she stands matters. New York City’s Times Square may be bright, but the histories she carries are heavy. She stands in the truth of who she is. She carries it all: the memories and the weight of being a Black woman in America. Being seen but unheard, expected to be strong, to be soft, to be everything, yet still invisible.

It is not just about the past. It is about the everyday. The holding. The swallowing. The rising anyway. She is stillness with intention.

The Artist Behind Grounded in the Stars

Thomas J. Price, a British sculptor, is one of those artists whose work commands attention. In his latest piece in Times Square, Grounded in the Stars, there is a striking lifelike accuracy, not just in how she looks but in how she feels. Through choices like posture, expression, and clothing, he invites us to think about how society assigns value to people based on appearance, race, and class.

Price uses the sculpture to explore what it means to truly see someone. He reclaims this space, turning a fictional Black woman into something far beyond just a sculpture. She is a symbol of presence, power, and possibility.

A Monument Made Familiar

She’s not abstract or trapped in an art-world mystery. She’s a regular-degular Black girl in sneakers, braids, and a T-shirt, standing tall in the middle of Times Square. The bronze isn’t polished to perfection. It’s textured just enough to feel familiar. Like skin. Like fabric. Like her.

Her pose is soft, a shifting contrapposto. One hip tilted, her weight settling onto a single leg, the other at ease. It’s a posture that breathes. Ancient sculptors used it to make stone feel alive, to let bodies speak, even in stillness. Here, it speaks of confidence, ease, and presence.

This is the same pose Michelangelo gave David. White marble, mythic masculinity, carved to dominate, but Thomas J. Price gives us something else. A woman made monumental by her ordinariness. She’s not here to imitate history. She’s here to reframe it.

In her body, contrapposto becomes something else entirely. Not a reference, but a reclaiming. No crown. No sword. Just stillness. The kind that hums with quiet power, like something’s about to happen, but only on her terms. Grounded in the Stars honors the kind of Black woman we pass every day but rarely see immortalized. There’s grace in her stillness, power in her quiet. Rooted in the real, reaching toward something bigger. She feels like all of us, and more.

Public Response

That reframing doesn’t stop with the sculpture itself, it extends to how we react to her. Reactions to Grounded in the Stars have been layered. For many, it’s a breath of fresh air. A Black woman, unbothered, finally taking up space. People stopped, took photos, took it in. For Black women especially, it felt like being seen. But not everyone welcomed her.

Some questioned her clothes, others her body. It was too casual, too big, too ordinary. Not what a sculpture is “supposed” to look like. We could frame these critiques as complex cultural puzzles, something to ponder in theory. But the truth is simpler: Fatphobia exists. Racism exists. Sexism exists.

The discomfort says more than the critique ever could. This was never really about the statue. It’s about who we’ve been taught deserves to be seen, cast in bronze, made permanent, and who doesn’t. It’s the same pressure Beyoncé names in Ameriican Requiem, the expectation to fit a mold that was never made for you. Grounded in the Stars is challenging who gets to be seen, how beauty and power are defined, and what deserves to be monument-ized.

The Power of Presence

There’s something quietly defiant about just standing still. No flash. No spectacle. Just presence. Grounded in the Stars is the answer to erasure, a soft yes in a world full of no.

A body that says: “I am here. You will see me. Not because I perform. Not because I suffer. Because I breathe.” This is what existential defiance looks like: a Black woman, cast in bronze, unmoving but full of motion, grounded but reaching. Existing, without apologizing.

Even when the world doesn’t make room for you. Even when your name is lost and your story unwritten. Even when the mud clings and no one sees the weight. Stand anyway.

[lokh]

commissions opening very soon cos im about to get hit with vet bills -_-

[cas-backwards-tie]

So while I’ve posted personal photos on here maybe once or twice at most… I had to post these because not only did the girlies convince/possess me to buy Monster. (because of course the fact that it’s pre-show week isn’t enough lol) but I saw this when on the way to meet up with a friend this evening and had to take photos for all my girlie pies 💖

and while I couldn’t get the photo of Ghost at as great of an angle, and am new to the community, and don’t know who’s a price girlie or anything, I had to take the photos for y’all, so i’m just gonna tag some of the lovelies i think (know) would appreciate this ☺️🙌🏻

tags: @lxvvie , @puff0o0 , @stargirlrchive , @lovebugcody

[hide-your-bugs-away]

CALL MY ROOM A ZOO BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF ANIMALS IN HERE.

[loislane-ana]

NEWS, ukraine, zelenskyy, doge layoffs, America PAC, tariffs, ice, gas prices, protests, times square, nyc, snl,

[futurebird]

Things have been so much better since they started congestion pricing and I can't help but think the attempts to break it are just... petty.

Anyways there is a rally @3 in NYC times square. Gotta get my wingtips on and catch the bus down there.

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Chloe Price…

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[4lbon]

Babes how crazy would it be if I moved in 2 months

[killbent]

So since I gotta update the contact info on my commission sheet, does anyone got any constructive criticism for other things to tweak? I mainly just wanna know if the information's like, coherent or if there's anything that's confusing.

[diceroulette]

i literally cannot wait until there is actually other life sim games like the sims that are actually publicly available to play!!! like Tiny Life is out now and i do definitely want to play it but... come 2024 we might have Life by You and perhaps Vivaland in our hands... also i am Really Really awaiting Paralives as well i am PRAYING for a release date to be announced. like i will exercise as much patience as i can but tbh ts4 is depriving me (i only have base game + my first pet stuff + desert luxe kit so i dont have 95% of the gameplay i want .) and i would love to just be able to have something else to play too??

[sazzadhosin]

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[dandyshucks]

i was going to email my accordion teacher i had a few yrs ago to ask for advice on fixing my accordion but then remembered she is quite old so ... i went and looked her up just to make sure there were no obituaries or smth for her and uhm. instead i found out her brother is like. super famous. bro that guy taught me some piano stuff and i played music with him holy shit help ??? i sat on the same piano bench with him while he showed me some piano stuff oh my god. i think he also maybe taught me a bit of accordion bc he plays like a million instruments. he's won multiple awards and has travelled worldwide to perform ???? HELLO ???

and now im too scared and intimidated to email her hdsgjskdgjkl

[lookninjas]

Anyway it turns out that precounts went so easily because my new district manager and regional manager successfully removed $200,000 of inventory from my store between February 2023 and March 2024. And then inventory day itself went fairly easily because... IDK, we're ballers, I guess.

[fluffyapathybunny]

Pricing paintings I haven't even completed is so funny like yeah I imagine the thing that will end up looking like shit will sell for $1,000

[thedissociatives]

looking at getting myself an actual polaroid camera