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Juanita Bermúdez, the director of the Códice Gallery, stated that the animal was fed regularly and was only tied up for three hours on one day before it escaped.[6][7] Vargas himself refused to comment on the fate of the dog,[7][5] but noted that no one tried to free the dog, give it food, call the police, or do anything for the dog.[5] Vargas stated that the exhibit and the surrounding controversy highlight people's hypocrisy because no one cares about a dog that starves to death in the street.[5] In an interview with El Tiempo, Vargas explained that he was inspired by the death of Natividad Canda, an indigent Nicaraguan addict, who was killed by two Rottweilers in Cartago Province, Costa Rica, while being filmed by the news media in the presence of police, firefighters, and security guards.[10]
- Taken from Wikipedia.
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.
-Taken from his blog site
Look into something before you criticize something so harshly. He makes a lot of good points.
He took one dog he found on the street. ONE. Tied it up. Didn't feed it, let it starve. He also burned 175 pieces of crack cocaine and an ounce of marijuana while playing the Sandinista anthem backward.
He was making a statement. Did anyone try to feed the dog? No. Did anyone try to untie it? No. Did anyone call animal control? No.
Hypocritical to whine about it, but do nothing about it. And do you understand how many dogs, cats and other animals are on the streets dying of starvation RIGHT NOW? Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, possibly.
He was no only bringing this starving dog and the problem of animals starving DIRECTLY to the public's eye, so they could see it at full force...
He was pointing out the hypocrisy of some people.
If you're going to complain about something like this...and say it's wrong...
Why don't you go save a few hundred dogs from the street? I don't see you doing your part in helping this tragedy.
Because a man tying up a starving, homeless dog and letting it die...
And a dog on the streets by himself starving and dying...
Is pretty much the same thing.
I'm not saying this is a totally good thing. Tying up a dog and letting it starve is wrong. But he was making a statement. He was trying to get good out of it. Everyone who's freaking out about this REALLY needs to back up and take a look at the world. Because if you're going to whine about this one thing...I feel sorry for you when you're really hit with everything that's happening.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
"Inspire."
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