Mount Vernon Community College - Pyramid Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IL)

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DR. HOWARD E. RAwtiNsoN 89012 73 Wessaye Every man is an artist. Every life is a work of art. Yet, although the world places a value on the art, only the creator can be a true judge of its worth. The story of Pygmalion, the sculptor whose skill was so great that the gods granted life to his creation, is known to everyone. But few have ever heard of a youth whose name is lost in antiquity and whose shattered statue rolls with the sands at the bottom of the restless Aegean. Legend says that he searched many years before finding a perfect stone above a craggy cliff and that, like any good artist, he studied it until he knew intimately the lines of the figure he planned to release. As he began to carve, it was obvious that the work would be good. Many came to marvel and to offer ad- vice. Midas was there, and Bacchus, and Aphrodite. And sometimes what they said to him caused the chisel to slip or the stroke of the mallet to falter. But when his work was done, men called it good and proclaimed that he would wear the laurel. Despite their extravagant praise, each time he gazed upon the statue he was haunted by the lovely vision he had failed to release from the stone. One dark night he toppled the statue into the sea and fled. D Mt Vean C , Some said that the artist, having created perfection, Collegmon Ommumty had gone mad, while others said the gods had grown envious e and had destroyed both the statue and her creator. For a few day the story was on everyone's lips: then, it was all but forgotten. Occasionally, a traveler reported having seen someone who resembled the sculptor work- ing as a stonecutter in the quarries near Corinth or decorating wine jars at the port of Piraeus. One rumor had it that he had gone to Cyprus, had found marble of surpassing beauty, and was working at his old trade under an assumed name. The name was Pygmalion.