![dazzlingdelta: the artists statement was “Here is a part of his original [most recent] statement:”Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I have been critisized 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.” Interesting intention, but also one of those “artistic” lapses in logic and or reasoning. Um, how about just feeding the damn thing. Or adopting it. Or feeding any of the other hundreds of dogs that Guillermo feels so “passionate” about.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/jhI2y9hrL7lnh3n4AtjGj2O3_400.jpg)
the artists statement was
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Here is a part of his original [most recent] statement:”Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I have been critisized 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.”
Interesting intention, but also one of those “artistic” lapses in logic and or reasoning. Um, how about just feeding the damn thing. Or adopting it. Or feeding any of the other hundreds of dogs that Guillermo feels so “passionate” about.
