When the local art gallery runs a contest looking for new artists, Zeke is pumped to enter and to win. Unfortunately, the entries must be sculptures, and that is not Zeke’s forte. He decides to draw a statue on the PAD for reference (he draws a famous ‘lost’ statue called the Joseph as he wants to create a masterpiece) and oddly enough a STAUTE of the Joseph appears in his room! This is great! He can enter this statue and he will win for sure. But he soon finds that the statue is not just lifelike, its ALIVE! The Joseph (who insists that his new pals Zeke and Jay call him “Joey”) really likes being alive, the food, the flowers, the girls – he is one happy former piazza dweller. It takes all Zeke and Jay’s energy to try to keep Joey from being discovered as he thumps around the house and town, savoring life. Zeke still wants to enter Joey in the sculpture contest; now all he has to do is get him to stand still long enough for him to be judged!
