Marina's Masters

vrijdag 8 mei 2009

Sinister Sites

The Denver International Airport

So this is what welcomes you when you enter the gates of hell…sorry, I meant the gates of the airport. A 32 foot high fiberglass stallion with veins popping out of its whole body and demonic eyes that glow red. Nice. I heard the children love it. Interesting fact: the horse killed his creator, Luis Jimenez, while he was working on it. A portion of the sculpture came loose and smashed him, causing fatal injuries. His friends now say that the horse is cursed.

What does it represent?
The 1st thing that came to mind when I saw this horrendous piece (for an aiport anyways) is: the Pale horse of the Apocalypse. It is the fourth horse in the book of Revelation in the Bible and is approprietely called 'Death'.

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse;
and his name that sat on him was
Death, and Hell followed with him.
And power was given unto them over the
fourth part of the earth, to kill with
sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth".
-Revelation 6:7-8

In other words, the horse 'Death' brought killing with weapons, with hunger, and with disease. That's pretty extreme a family airport, right? Doesn't seem like that horse should be there. You will soon realize that it fits perfectly with the rest of the DIA.