Marina Karassellos
Ceramics
9" x 11.7" x 7.75"
 
Chester carries the story of the colossal Leland Iron Works in his face. His scorched skin and charred nose are the living marks of the furnace fires he tended for decades. Now a self-proclaimed historian, he re-enacts the past every night on his back porch. He performs the intense labor of stoking the massive furnaces with local coal, but his most poignant re-enactment is of the brutal, constant toil, living and working under a permanent cloud of smoke. His audience: a cast of bewildered squirrels.