North Carolina Miscellany
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COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
Midnight Melancholia (digital painting, 10x12) by Alec Campbell-Barner
two sizes too small for a shot with the widow-peaked porcelain-toothed prince. And when the clock strikes midnight and you’re stranded in the parking lot behind Cook Out, five quarters and a dead phone in your pocket, don’t expect smoke-lit mirror revelations or moonshine lake transformations – this time you’ll need a fifth of Rebel Yell to knock the beast unconscious, a wand of mascara, some winged high tops, twenty bucks for the bus, and a new number.
These works of art were created for the NCLR/Student Art Collaboration Competition, organized by NCLR Art Editor Diane Rodman and ECU Art Professor Joan Mansfield (cover artist for NCLR 2011). For a second year, Joan had her art students respond to art forthcoming in NCLR, this time poems by two of the finalists in the 2017 Applewhite Poetry Prize competition, this one and Annie Frazier’s poem in the Flashbacks section. From eleven submissions for each poem, Diane picked first and second place works to be featured with the poems in this issue.
Diane Rodman selected ALEC CAMPBELL-BARNER’s response for a “very close” second place, saying, “The excellent use of vanishing point perspective, as well as the tightness of space, along with what appears to be a one-lane road, play into the theme of the poem.” The artist is a senior pursuing a BFA in illustration and art education.