Photo: Toxic Environment Cow (Costa Rica 2008)

Toxic Environment Cow

Where: San Jose, Costa Rica
When: Afternoon, June 5th 2008

During my visit to Costa Rica in June 2008, San Jose was holding a CowParade public art exhibit. Dozens of artists had decorated cows, placed throughout the city, in ways that were sometimes beautiful, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes expressed a poignant social or political message. We made it our mission to look for these cows wherever we went. This cow, with it's gas mask, green hooves, and carbon emissions statistics printed in green, warned passers-by against creating a toxic environment.