Mustang

[tahnan]

"Huh," I said, as our shuttle driver in Denver told us about the large steel blue mustang with flashing red eyes that's just outside the airport, "how many artists are there who've been killed when their statues fell on them?"

My intuition was right. The blue mustang you may have seen in Denver, if you were in Denver this summer, was made by the father of Elisa from Season 4 of Project Runway.

OK, carry on.

Comments

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

Was Elisa the spitmark flake? Oh, geez.

[quantumkitty.livejournal.com]

*puzzled* Is this a reference to the "Ringo fell on himself" thing?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

The what thing? No, really, Elisa Jimenez's father, Luis Jimenez, was a sculptor who was killed when (part of) his work fell on him.

[quantumkitty.livejournal.com]

This.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Ah! No. Now, if he'd been making a statue of himself, as opposed to one of a blue mustang, matters would be different (linguistically, that is; but equally tragic in reality).

[quantumkitty.livejournal.com]

I had interpreted "their statues" as "statues of them." (And I didn't click the link at first because I saw it was an image and thus didn't think it would explain much.)

[dreams-of-wings.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, isn't that thing hideous?

Public art in CO is often terrible, but that piece is especially atrocious.

[dreams-of-wings.livejournal.com]

Actually, after sleeping on it for a night, this story explains a lot about that artwork. When it killed Mr. Jimenez it stole his soul, in order to power its infernal glowing red eyes.

[mickeymao.livejournal.com]

Huh. I had never heard of Jiminez until I was in Roswell NM earlier this year. Jiminez was an artist in residence at the Anderson Museum of modern art there, and they have a ton of his work. Some of it is tacky as heck, and some is really cool. He was super-prolific. I hadn't picked up that Elisa was his daughter.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

She'd made some comment on the show about being the daughter of an artist (or two?), and so I'd gone to look up who her parents were. But I'd forgotten the details of Jimenez's work (father, not daughter) until the driver made the comment.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Oh, when you said "mustang" I was picturing a car. Thanks for the image link, which set me straight.

[mnemoni.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd realized at the time that that was the statue that killed Jimenez. He was from my city (El Paso) and his death was a very big deal here.

Here are a couple of his works that did not fall on him and kill him:

http://archives.newspapertree.com/downtown/alligator.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2432914861_715877df29.jpg?v=0