Art vs Cruelty 2424 Responses

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Out of context: Response #11 [Apr 18, 08, 7:43 p.m.]

• kalkal

  "Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Vargas Habacuc. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I have been criticized for my work titled "Eres lo que lees", which features a dog named Nativity. The purpose of the work was not to cause any type of infliction on the poor, innocent creature, but rather to illustrate a point. In my home city of San Jose, Costa Rica, tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought. Now, if you publicly display one of these starving creatures, such as the case with Nativity, it creates a backlash that brings out a big of hypocrisy in all of us. Nativity was a very sick creature and would have died in the streets anyway."

  At first I was outraged but after reading this, I'm unsure how I feel. I don't think putting the dog on show has made any difference, the people at the "viewing" seemed to be ignoring the animal in the corner while laughing and joking with glasses of wine. In a manner they've probably become acustomed to when seeing stray dogs in the street.

  He just really exploited the dieing dog to boost his status IMO.

  

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