{"person":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"246"},"lastName":{"label":"Last Name","value":"Cornett"},"endDate":{"label":"Death Date","value":"1981"},"displayName":{"label":"Name","value":"Chester Cornett"},"objects":{"label":"Objects","value":{"objectTitle":"Crucifix","objectNumber":"1983.28.1","objectID":"1367"}},"geographyDied":{"label":"Died","value":"Kings Creek"},"geographyActive":{"label":"Active","value":"Kings Creek"},"geographyBorn":{"label":"Born","value":"Kings Creek"},"beginDate":{"label":"Birth Date","value":"1912"},"firstName":{"label":"First Name","value":"Chester"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"Although he apprenticed with his grandfather to learn chairmaking, Cornett's large-scale sculpture of Christ on the cross was inspired by a visionary experience. Cornett dreamed in 1968 that a flood was going to submerge all of eastern kentucky under water. To save himself he built a large ark with room for passengers and a sculpture of Christ on the cross affixed to the bow. The flood did not occur he moved out of the ark and back into his house. Shortly after, there was a local flood and the creek behind his house overflowed carrying the ark away. The sculpture was recovered, though the ark was not."},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/1415/full"},"names":{"label":"Names","value":"Chester Cornett"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"(1912\u20131981)"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"150739"}}]}