October 23, 2019 | The Clarion
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Last but not least!
Lusk s banjo sculpture is erected on Broad Street
By Margaret Correll
Layout & Design
The last sculpture in the musical trio was
put into place on Wednesday, Oct. 9 on Broad
Street, across from the Brevard College campus.
Brevard College art and sculpting professor,
Kyle Lusk, has been working on finishing this
piece since the start of the Fall 2019 school year.
Professor Ken McLeskey and Aaron Alderman
helped with the installation along with Brevard
students Ricky Crull and Declan Lusk.
This sculpture, the banjo titled “Breakdown in
Steel,” is the largest of the three and stands at
20 feet. The banjo is intended to compliment its
neighboring statues, the saxophone titled “Park
Your Charlie,” and the violin titled “Partita.”
“It needed to be roughly to scale with the two
other instruments being portrayed," said Lusk,
“I wanted the banjo to be tall enough so that
the sky could be seen as its background when
viewed from the traffic light.
The group of sculptures are meant to symbolize
the diverse music in the Brevard area, and they
are marking the entrance to downtown. Finally
having all three of the sculptures in place, Lusk
is quite happy with the finished product. “Tve
only been able to visualize what they would
look like installed as a group for over a year now
so getting to finally see them in place is quite
satisfying,” said Lusk.
Lusk is also very pleased with how the
sculptures turned out and the opportunity
to create something special for the Brevard
community and the Brevard College campus.
Lusk will continue to teach at Brevard College,
with other works elsewhere in development.
“My other current projects are not in the Brevard
area, however, I would like to see more public
sculptures on our campus...so weTl see,” said
Lusk.
The three musical sculptures can be seen in
front of the Brevard College campus and the
First United Methodist Church on Broad Street.
“Breakdown in Steel” marking the entrance to
downtown Brevard.
Submit your horrors to the Clarion!
How scary can you be in only two sentences?
The Clarion once again is asking for submis
sions to our annual TWO-SENTENCE FIOR-
ROR STORY collection, which we intend to
publish in this year’s issue of “The SCARION,”
our annual Halloween-themed issue.
So what exactly IS a two-sentence horror
story? It is, simply put, a horror story that con
sists of exactly TWO SENTENCES — no more,
no less ... no exceptions.
Obviously, it takes skill to achieve an ac
ceptable level of spine-chilling horror, blood
curdling terror, or stomach-churning disgust in
fewer words than can be found on the back of
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tombstones, or typed into a typical Donald
Tmmp tweet. (You know the type: those that
include erroneous names like “Esperanto” for
“Esper” and misspelled words like “tapp” or
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letters while simultaneously claiming to be vic
tim of a political “lynching” — yes he did actu
ally use that word — in his totally not-cormpt
and/or impeachable attempts to make America
great again....)
To return to the point: Two-sentence horror
stories are short, they GRAB your attention, and
they are masters of concise description. The best
ones appeal to your senses — the five we all know
about of course, but also maybe a few you didn’t
know you had....
Above all, two-sentence horror stories are
CREEPY. They stay with you: haunting your
dreams, filling your peripheral vision with myste
rious shapes, making you wonder whatever pos
sessed you to take that weirdly foggy and spider-
webbed shortcut through the old cemetery....
TO SUBMIT YOUR STORY, simply fill out the
following form and click the Submit button. But
don’t delay — the DEADline to submit is by 6 p.m.
on MONDAY, Oct. 28, so that your stories can be
included in The SCARION on Wednesday, Oct. 30.
And just what will you receive for, you know,
SUBMITTING? Well, there is publication credit
in The SCARION, of course, but you can can also
revel in the fact that you might have made some
one’s blood mn cold, fear things that go bump in
the night, or just creeped someone the #&@$ out
as part of Halloween in Transylvania County....
P.S.: If you would like to get a feel, a FLAVOR,
for what a two-sentence horror story looks or
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