“Enyedi was born and raised in Chicago. Like many children of the Midwest, he grew up without prejudice against heavy industry. Work paid the bills and the plants provided lots of work. Children know that because their parents tell them so. On a purely kid level, the steel plants, refineries and warehouses are just flat out cool because they are so big, so busy and so dirty. Watching them is like staring at an ant farm. Something is always going on.”
Ferdinand Protzman, excerpted from catalog essay