Denver Airport- Blue Mustang Flag

Hello, I am back with another work.

Before we begin, I am not sure whether the sculptor's work is in the public domain. I assumed it was owing to the many photos on the web. If it is not, please inform me and I will take the work down.

I wanted to do a flag on this subject, but held off on going through with it for some years because I was afraid I would get the horse wrong.
Those of you who live in Denver, have visited the city or journeyed through it may know what I am talking about. For those who are strangers to the topic, let me sum it up.

Denver International Airport is the main airport of Denver, Colorado. It is the 3rd busiest airport in North America and the second largest by area in the world after King Fahd Airport in Saudi Arabia. The airport is known for its unusual artwork and elements, which serve as feed for conspiracy theorists who claim there is an underground base located there. These include a masonic symbol and murals of people in gas masks.
The most well-known artwork symbolising the airport's strangeness, is a bizarre statue of a demonic-looking blue horse with glowing red eyes, completed in 2008. Ironically the artist who created it, Luis Jimenez, was tragically killed when a part of the sculpture fell atop him in 2006, an incident which further adds to the statue's notoriety.

The horse's disconcerting appearance led to a failed Facebook campaign to have it removed, and the statue divides opinion of those who come across it. Whatever the reception, the Blue Mustang (as it has come to be known), has become a familiar icon of the city. For me, this was a piece worthy of a flag. So I got to work.

I originally sought to create a single tricolour flag for this subject but decided against it because it could involve too many colours, and I thought to myself that I should probably do some more research before making a rash decision. It was from this research where I came across the flag of Denver, a red and white banner with a white zigzag charge and a yellow disc above it, representing the Rocky Mountains.  

I made four different flags for different times of the day, each of them with five colours or less. I had it in my head that as the day progresses the horse gets darker and eyes redder, until nightfall when it turns white with fully glowing eyes. Don't get me wrong, I'm not implying that the flag needs to be constantly changed by a man on guard, or that it will magically change like something out of Hogwarts. It's just a concept bro.

The primary colours for the morning, afternoon and evening flags are yellow, blue and red respectively. Colours you will find on the flag of Colorado, albeit the blue in my work is lighter. For the first two flags the horse is in proper colours, while the zigzag design features in the afternoon and evening flags. The morning flag has roundels in the top two corners, the hoist corner depicting the emblem of the City and County of Denver, and the fly corner has the flag of Denver in miniature.

As the day progresses, the stallion's eyes undergo a change, initially turning white but gradually turning red. The prominent veins on the horse's body also turn red.
Finally we have the night flag. The horse has turned white with fully glowing eyes, on a black background. I chose black because the flag would be invisible in the night sky, giving the impression there is a ghostly apparition in the sky.

As I mentioned before, this work took me about three years to complete because of my lack of confidence and misgivings regarding how it would turn out. Indeed, I forgot about it for a year. and it was only the previous month I picked up from where I left behind. My last challenge was how to colour the seal of the City and County of Denver on the morning flag with just three colours; each element of the seal seemed to touch each other and I needed careful consideration to make all the parts distinguishable, else I would have had to include a fifth colour to the flag. My solution: to interweave two of the existing colours for some elements.

So there it is, my take on the Blue Mustang and hopefully a good tribute to the artist who died doing what he loved.

I would like to hear your opinion of my work. All suggestions and criticism is welcome.

Take care.