tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444082152312444929.post1464369647415771792..comments2024-02-15T22:18:00.385-07:00Comments on Bobby Byrd: Airports & Horses: Jimenez & HauserBobby Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444082152312444929.post-5013812677032040932009-07-27T19:02:02.528-06:002009-07-27T19:02:02.528-06:00A comment on the El Paso Times story about the nex...A comment on the El Paso Times story about the next travesty, Susan Magoffin, says it all: it looks like a giant Mrs. Butterworth syrup bottle. And for this $100,000?????Helen Marshallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444082152312444929.post-9638863840908934652009-03-18T18:45:00.000-06:002009-03-18T18:45:00.000-06:00Bobby, I appreciate your perspective on the fire-e...Bobby, I appreciate your perspective on the fire-eyed blue mustang. I'd heard of it and the people it bothers and seeing a picture thought the horse intimidating. The more I read your post the more I liked the idea of it being intimidating.Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444082152312444929.post-8971261534797408662009-03-04T08:37:00.000-07:002009-03-04T08:37:00.000-07:00A thrilling report, Bobby. Thanks for the opportun...A thrilling report, Bobby. Thanks for the opportunity for those of us who live elsewhere ( I live in the Pacific Northwest) to share in your concerns, insights, and heart-felt projections. Even when you write prose, like Joy Harjo, like Sherman Alexie, you are still writing poetry. I love your writing and your spirit. I stumbled onto your blog site while looking into Keith Wilson's demise, and look forward to being a regular visitor. My blog, FEEL FREE TO READ, is over at<BR/>http://bibliosity.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>I would love to attend your Festival of Foregiveness Pow Wow.<BR/>Maybe we could get some other Native American poets there too. and throw in Barrack Obama alongside Jesus, Mohammad, and Buddha, enit?<BR/><BR/>Glenn<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>GlennGlenn Buttkushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10680725814199700692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444082152312444929.post-67186574117421094182009-02-16T17:11:00.000-07:002009-02-16T17:11:00.000-07:00Miguel Juarez, an arts and politcal activist in El...Miguel Juarez, an arts and politcal activist in El Paso, sent out an email with this note from Roberto Calderon. It links to an article in the Wall Street Journal about a rumble of local dissatisfaction in Denver about the Blue Mustang-- <BR/><BR/>LUIS JIMENEZ (1940-2006): One of the late great Chicano sculptor's giant art installations at the Denver International Airport (DIA), which he called Mustang / Mesteño, is causing some in the Mile High City to organize to take it down, move it, away from the public's consciousness or from such a public place. Presumably the sculpture of the blue horse would be moved to a less public locale. There are those in Denver who are standing up for the view of leaving the horse just where it is, thank you. The slide series available if you click on the Wall Street Journal link below and follow its thread shows dramatic fotos of the horse in question, great and dramatic art it is. Commissioned in 1992 (or 1993 depending on the source) by the DIA as a would-be "symbol of Denver and the West," the 65-year-old Jiménez died in an accident suffered while working on this sculpture in 2006. At a cost to the City of Denver of $650,000, the 32-foot tall fiberglass sculpture of the blue horse was finally finished with the intervention of Jiménez's widow and children. Its eventual completion led to its being installed toward the front entrance of the DIA in February 2008. This was apparently the tallest sculpture ever made by Jiménez in his long artistic career.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I have copied some photos and text from the City of Denver's Public Art Program Web site following the WSJ article for you to get a close-up view of the sculpture which Jiménez called as noted above, Mustang / Mesteño.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I recall that during the year I spent teaching at the University of Texas at San Antonio, at the North Campus location, there was a beautiful sculpture by Luis Jiménez, with its amazing colors, angles, looks, shines, shadows, and its massive size, the works. He called it "Border Crossing." It is the one of the indigenous looking man and woman, mexicanos, wherein the man is carrying the woman on his back over the sometimes dangerous shallows of the Rio Bravo, riding his back, agarrado del cuello uno del otro y el hombre dando pasos hacia adelante su frente hacia abajo, sobre la tarea. While the direction implied is north, claro, and the sculpture was located so that its representative Mexican figures DID face north, their movement could have been in either direction. This was one of the greatest pleasures I had that year, having my frequent walks and looks by, with, and along this particular Jimenez art installation which was on loan, I believe, to UTSA, and I don't know if it is still there today. See the foto of the "Border Crossing" sculpture I've included below from the sculptor's Wikipedia site. <BR/><BR/>Que viva el caballo azul--el Mustang / Mesteño--de Luis Jiménez! Que bastante trabajo y su vida propia le costo aunque no lo haya querido que asi fuera. Adelante!<BR/><BR/>Roberto R. Calderón <BR/>Historia Chicana [Historia]Bobby Byrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444082152312444929.post-71425283323665404182009-02-12T18:35:00.000-07:002009-02-12T18:35:00.000-07:00Bobby, could you provide a reference of some kind ...Bobby, could you provide a reference of some kind in your next post about the anti-adobe legislation, I never heard of that and would like to know more...immediate search on line just brings up your piece! Sito has already provided us with the anti-marijuana legislation of a century ago, fueled by fear of Revolutionary Mexicans. Thank you.<BR/><BR/>Helen Marshall<BR/>El PasoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444082152312444929.post-88213539923355831582009-02-08T10:05:00.000-07:002009-02-08T10:05:00.000-07:00Nice piece, Bobby. Thanks.Although it's largely b...Nice piece, Bobby. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>Although it's largely being kept under the radar, I have been told that Houser is already working on his next irrelevant statue for El Paso, one of Susan Magoffin, yet another Anglo who never did anything for El Paso but pass through it. It is being supported by the El Paso Community Foundation and its founder Janice W. Windle who wrote about pioneer Texas women and includes a chapter on Magoffin, but we can be certain that more El Paso tax money, money that could be used to support far more relevant public arts pieces, is going to go to Houser. Nobody in the world except Windle could care less about Susan Magoffin and there is no reason why El Paso should be supporting this endeavor. El Paso has no obligation to the continued pursuit of the 12 Travelers or of John Houser's career. <BR/><BR/>It would be nice if there could be some organized opposition to any public funding of Houser's 3rd travesty against the citizens of El Chuco.<BR/><BR/>Richard Baron<BR/>Santa FeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444082152312444929.post-64228536537920018862009-02-08T10:00:00.000-07:002009-02-08T10:00:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com