Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues
N C L R ONLINE
85
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
and in the dark my footsteps owl hoots equine nose-blows the only sounds
Reminiscing in Half Light (digital, ink on watercolor paper, 9x12.5) by Phoebe Lewis
i sweep the headlamp’s beam across the field to see light flashed back to me thousands of tiny sparks blue and scattered through the grass spiders’ eyes watching
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. 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 James Applewhite Poetry Prize, this one and Christina Clark’s poem in the North Carolina Miscellany section. From eleven submissions in response to this poem, Diane picked first and second place works to be featured with the poems.
PHOEBE LEWIS is from Winston-Salem, NC. She is working toward a BFA with a concentration in Animation. Selecting it for second place, Rodman noted of her piece, “Viewers of this work enter the scene. They stand beside the speaker in the barn, look up and out the barn door, and see far across the distant field and sky. The illusion of depth and space created by the artist is the making of her fine illustration.”