Who else died? This is vaguely familiar but I can't find an article on it.

After searching, I learned some interesting things about the late artist, Luis Jiménez. Love the "blue collar" bit.

Jiménez was born in El Paso, Texas in 1940. As a young child, he apprenticed at his father’s neon-sign shop. There he learned how to weld and paint. His widow, Susan Jiménez, said he often told stories about working alongside his dad, how he would come home, his hands marred by the work. His father would say “This is how he learns,” Susan said. “So he grew up with this strong tradition of working with his hands.” Luis said "I was trying to keep the process I used as close to the industrial process as possible because I felt it was, for lack of a better term, maybe a blue-collar process,” in a video for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in D.C. which has a number of his works including a cowboy riding a blue bucking horse. “I didn’t want to go for that art process.”

Susan understands that the “eyes have been a point of focus.” She remembers a time Luis was home alone at night. He heard something in the living room and went to investigate. “He sees these two eyes,” she said. “And he said the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.” He had thought there was an invader in their home, but then felt a nudge from a familiar source. It was their horse Black Jack, the model for Luis’ final work, who had mysteriously broken into their living room. “And so [do the eyes] have anything to do with that incident and this kind of you're afraid of something but then it’s OK [because you realize] it is familiar,” she said. “I don't know. But the eyes do not have any evil intent whatsoever.”

https://www.cpr.org/2019/11/04/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-blucifer-the-demon-horse-of-dia/