Denver International Airport
The Icon of Illuminati
The demonic "Pale horse"
The nun who may have inspired Allen's creation is Lydia Peña, a Sister of Loretto whose long career teaching art history eventually led her to gigs like serving on the architectural design committee for the airport. "It was one of the most exciting chapters in my life," Peña tells me from her office.
Currently a fundraiser for the Havern School, which focuses on learning disabilities, she defends artists and their right to create, whether the results are controversial or not. "I got to know Luis Jiménez. He had a great personality," says Peña of the sculptor behind Blue Mustang, the 32-foot horse with vibrant, gleaming red-orange eyes that greets travelers and causes some to have on-the-ground panic attacks usually reserved for DIA's notorious turbulence. "As you know, the sculpture fell on him in the process of creation and, ultimately, he died."
That's right, folks: The piece was commissioned by Peña's committee in the mid-'90s but Jiménez was still working on it on June 13, 2006, when a piece of the sculpture fell and severed an artery in his leg. The horse that killed its maker was finished by his estate and unveiled on February 11, 2008.
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