[AGL] Luis Jimenez, R.I.P.

[Wayne Johnson]

Oh, No!

More really bad news!

I hope he enjoyed his life.  Sounds like he did and that is a truly good 
thing.

Why are the artist's dying and the politicians just growing fatter and older 
and more evil?

wgJ

Oh, dear. I have expressed an "emotion"!  How very un-cool!  How very 
un-Jon!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: [AGL] Luis Jimenez, R.I.P.


> Our good friend Luis Jimenez, sculptor and super talented
> artist, died yesterday in an accident in his studio in Hondo NM.
>
> Luis studied art at UT in the 60s, moved to NYC where
> he first made his breakout fiberglass sculptures and became
> famous in the art world.
>
> He was killed when his 32 foot sculpture fell on him. Strangely,
> very strangely, when he was a student at UT, working under
> his Triumph TR3, it fell from the jack stands onto him and
> injured him.
>
> I will never ever forget him parking his pickup truck and
> trailer with s humongous fiberglass sculpture on its way to
> Houston across the street from our shabby little bungalow
> on West 9th street. He knocked on the door and told me
> to look across the street.
>
> I will be speaking to wife Madelon Saturday morning she
> sojurning in France on a canal boat for the next month. I
> have not and shall not inform her of the many deaths of
> friends this summer: Kathy DuBose, Jaxon and now Luis.
>
> Mike
>
>