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Somos un solo planeta en casa
THE ONLINE HIT
Andrés Vargas
Nobody expected to be locked up at home for two
months, due to an unknown virus capable of killing a
thousand people by just sneezing too close to
somebody. The coronavirus does not distinguish
from skin color, social class, nationality, and job, for
it all of us are the same: a human being. That should
be the way we look at each other, but it is with an
arrogant and greedy attitude we look at, and that’s
the reason we beat, insult, and denigrate anybody
without mercy. The justice must oversee this
phenomenon, we can call it racism, but that is not
happening, why it has occurred again and
again. Therefore, the justice system must resume
their activities as soon as possible to end this
violence period.
To show my rejection of the latest violence acts
committed and justice’s negligence, I drew a
caricature of a man sitting un an armchair saying to
the justice “How grueling is being online the whole
day”, and she sitting in an armchair, too; replies
“Tell me about it”, while a mugger just took a
woman’s bag away. I chose this art because it gives
me the chance to criticize what I am against to in a
clear way. Many people also use it for the same
purpose as me but transmitting a deeper message in
other topics. Maybe that inspired me to try it.
Perhaps the drawing has not too much connection
with the feelings I want to show, but what I am
pointing at is that the judges, lawyers, attorneys,
and the others justice system employees, get
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