Denver Airport Murals

[joethemechanic]

This is some strange stuff. Youu would think they would have something more calming.

 

[handy]

That's really something. Is that part of the permanent airport art?

Sheesh... :o

 

[joethemechanic]

That's really something. Is that part of the permanent airport art?

Sheesh... :o

Yeah permanant from what I've read.

How do you like this sculpture? It's eyes light up red at night.

 

[farouk]

What I think needs to be recognized is, that for many travellers to an international gateway airport such as Denver, the experience of many Latin Americans entering the United States and leaving their home countries involves a whole range of deeply mixed and traumatic emotions, encompassing separation from family, sometimes the persecution of régimes (particularly in the past) and an abiding sense — depsite physical displacement — of retaining a cultural sense of their roots in Latin America, with its different fauna and flora, legends and often harsh realities.

Some of these real and vivid emotions the artist has successfully expressed in these mural works.

I guess its another way of saying: welcome to America: to some extent we know where you are coming from and we can feel your pain.

So to the uninitiated some of the artwork may seem a little disturbing in places, but the artist has undoubtedly gotten his finger on the heartbeat, so to speak.

 

[DarkHorseRising]

Jesse Ventura did a hilariously ill-informed and speculative episode of his conspiracy theory show on this topic. I was half-expecting to find some of those allegations already posted. I'm disappointed.

 

[handy]

OK, so I trolled the net and looked up the artist, Leo Tanguma, and his own explanations for his art.

Turns out he's a Christian in the Social Justice Christian mode.... not something that I theologically agree with, but I don't know enough of his confession to say he isn't one when he says he is. On his website he says this about a different piece of art he created:

"Foremost in this scene is a campesino carrying a cross wrapped in a red flag. This symbolizes a great motivating ideology to those peoples in the revolutionary struggle, namely Liberation Theology. Essentially, this means that the scriptures and Christ’s teachings urges Christians to seek justice for the poor and defenseless and to overcome all forms of oppression."

It helps to have been a part of the ELCA and around the whole Social Justice/Earth's Stewards scene... I get it now.

According to Tanguma, the smaller of the murals is portrays the evils of social injustice and the lack of care of the environment. The larger one dipicts a "hopeful future" in which the children of the world are at play in a restored environment.

The conspiracy theories about the art are just the same silly drivel that conspiracy theorists love to wallow in. If you want to know what the artist means by it all... check out his site:

http://leotanguma.com/dia.htm

 

[Mike54321]

great artists were called 'geniuses', because they were believed to be influenced by genies, or angels, the Muslims call them the Jinn.

I've found most great painters, artists, musicians, writers all have prophetic abilities, whether they know it or not. they are often just tuned into the collective energy. They have no enemies, so all the love flows in, they only have good karma, so they become super charged with only positive energy.

It is very hard not to have any enemies, it's very hard to circumcize your heart, to never speak hateful words, towards ANYONE, or even think hateful thoughts, but if you can do it, you can achieve massive levels of karma and creativity, prophecy, these all come with the infusion of the positive collective.