The DIA Beast

If you have been to DIA in the last couple years you have seen the giant blue mustang bucking on it's hind legs. It has these huge, glaring, red eyes that make it look like it's possessed by some demonic force. The fact that it's blue doesn't help either...If there's anything positive to be said, it's that it can act as a conversation starter on a long flight. The artist, Luis Jimenez was killed days before it was completed. If that's not a bad omen i don't know what is.

Call me crazy but this is the last image (both mentally and visually) i want to see before i step into a giant metal aircraft that shouldn't be able to take off in the first place.

So, Jimenez was paid $300,000 for the "Mustang." I'm having a hard time deciding whether that's a normal price for a sculpture this size. Part of me feels that Denver could have used the funds in a better way...say, maybe for public education?