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.