Ready for more DIA hysteria? I thought you would be.
Nothing stirs the paranoid soul of a conspiracy theorist more than enigmatic art. Inside DIA there are…wait for it…Gargoyles! That’s right two ghoulish gargoyles grace the great hall of DIA. And, of course, that’s gotta be bad! Right?
Now I have read a few things about this type of statuary over the years (I mean, I am a horror writer and I do ready about the obscure and the gothic).
Many medieval churches used gargoyles as decorative water spouts. The rains came and water spewed from their mouths. Some believe they were placed on churches to represent evil and remind the mostly illiterate populace to go to church before the arrival of the End Times – essentially a scare tactic. Others believe gargoyles are placed on building to ward off evil spirits.
I should mention, the gargoyles in DIA sit inside of open suitcases. You can read into that whatever you want, because the conspiracy theorists don’t really offer any cogent theory about the purpose of the gargoyles, just that the fact they are in DIA so it is a bad sign.
Sprinkled around DIA are a number of bright, colorful murals commissioned for the airport before it opened. “These bizarre paintings seem relatively bright and cheerful at first glance,” says Extraordinary Intelligence. “But upon closer inspection, are quite odd.”
On closer inspection, so am I.
The Website continues: “One of the murals is called ‘Children of the World Dream of Peace.’ Awww, isn’t that nice? Well, it would be, if it weren’t for the fact that the mural depicts genocide, famine, military oppression, and death. Hovering over the “children of the world” is a grotesque alien-like, Nazi-esque, gas mask wearing uniformed figure, who is in the act of spearing the Dove of Peace with a giant sword. He is surrounded by women holding dead babies. There are dead children lying in coffins, and kids with swords wrapped in their nation’s flags. The mural is covered with images of war and death.
“Another mural features children surrounding what appears to be a ‘new messiah,’ offering it plants with some sort of magical or mystical quality. The whole thing strikes me as weird and morbid.”
Sure. That’s fair. That’s also the nature of art. It’s suppose to provoke feelings, good and bad. That doesn’t mean it’s so sort of conspiracy.
Tomorrow: Aliens at DIA!
No, really!
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