Weapon of Choice
An image that came to me when I thought about the kind of written work many people define as being called, ‘Hate Poetry’. I prefer to call this type of writing, ‘Therapeutic Writing’ or ‘Venting’. I don’t ‘hate’ anyone when I write something that expresses anger or disgust about an issue or a type of behaviour, I never hate the person themselves, I don’t even really ‘hate’ the behaviour or ‘incident’ that is being described, I’m simply responding to it with an emotion of some description at the time. Generally within an hour of completing a piece of writing, I’m feeling a sense of release and am fine again. The word ‘Hate’ is such a strong word, and people are apt to use it far too lightly and flippantly, similar to the way that the strength and power, of the emotion called ‘Love’, can be weakened and diluted, when it the word itself is either spoken or written too frequently and carelessly. The words ‘Love’ and ‘Hate’ in themselves are strange words, for they infer feelings that are extremely slanted towards either protecting or destroying someone or something. We protect those we are supposed to love, and we destroy those we are supposed to hate. Truth be known, I don’t think I’m capable of feeling such extremes of either emotion, I think I spend way too much of my life hovering around the perimeter of things, looking in, imitating the ways in which I’m supposed to think and feel about everything that’s going on… Mmm… This description has turned into quite some muse, considering all that really triggered it, was a comment I made to another person whereby I said, “You know, if I didn’t pick up a pen and write about it, it’s possible I’d pick up a gun and shoot someone.” But in having said that, I don’t feel this way because I hate anyone, but more because I just want something to STOP or go away, so I write it out of my system. I’m writing more softer stuff lately, than I’ve ever written before in my Life… There was a time when all of my writing used to sound angry, depressing and dark, it seems to be changing form and style lately… I’m not sure why… As yet I’m still considering whether or not I ‘Love’ this shift in my style of writing, or whether, in fact, I actually ‘Hate’ it. I guess more than anything, I simply prefer to flow where ever the current mood carries me to, and despite the common viewpoint of many people, I don’t believe that all emotions are capable of being controlled or contained… Nor maybe whether they even should be.
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Sophie Shapiro
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME!!!!!!!!
Sx
Paul Louis Vil...
Very cool, I like it!! :D
flower68
brilliant image Jennifer.I don’t believe all emotions are capable of being controlled or contained either.I think anybody who does think that isn’t paying attention to where and how things are being channelled within themselves.If you block one channel and the force of an emotion is strong enough it will find another way.I think untamed passion in a person can be beautiful.
Anyway,fantastic work.
JenniferB replied
Thanks flower68, wow! you read that rant of mine written in the description, lol, I start off with a sentence in my head to write about and it turns into an epic!!! lmao, I Think about things way too much… ;-)
Ariane
JenniferB this is an amazingly brilliant image – its really powerful – I would just love a T-shirt with this on it.
JenniferB replied
JenniferB this is an amazingly brilliant image – its really powerful – I would just love a T-shirt with this on it.
Thanks Ariane… I’ll think on it, I have a bit of a phobia about all things that involve commercialism and money-making… LOL. ;-)
JenniferB
Thanks Sophie and Paul, I’m isolating myself to have a little Art Thrash today… ;-)
xox
Jaybe
Speechless so faved it. ;-)
JenniferB replied
I wish I suffered from that condition called speechlessness more often! lol, thanks Jaybe.
psst, it was inspired from THIS poem… some things are best left to pictures and poems me thinks!;-)Jaybe
Me agrees – we want to keep you right here….;-)
ADuDeWiDaCaMeRa
nice stuff i dig it ;- )
JenniferB replied
thanks igo, I recommend you choose either the paintbrush or the pen!!! lmao!
abeigh
Jennifer, again such beauty. I get a real sense of Victory and peace. With all your complexity you truly amaze me. It’s is these things that I genuinely find myself caring for you, and that, for me is awesome. Axo
JenniferB replied
Thanks abeigh, yep, I do feel a lot better for having used Art as a media to vent my anger, instead of picking up a gun!!! LOL, I really didn’t fancy going into lock up and having to eat slop with plastic cutlery! ;
) Take care of yourself out there! ‘Tis a Wild World! ;) xoxjomash
What a great design Jenn xxx
JenniferB replied
Thanks Joanne. oxo
Leno
Your art is becoming formidable….better lift my game:))
JenniferB replied
Your art is becoming formidable….better lift my game:))
damn! Is it really Leno? shit, I’d better do a few stick figures or something to ease myself back into that comfortable feeling of failure again! I just hate being pinned down! ;-)
Leno
No I really mean it. Got lots of nice pics but really need to create more interesting art. As you know a great image can make a powerful impact . There are many social,political and environmental issues I feel strongly about….eg whaling …if I don’t get my culo into gear there won’t be any left! :))
JenniferB replied
There are many social,political and environmental issues I feel strongly about….eg whaling …if I don’t get my culo into gear there won’t be any left! :))
yes, there are a lot of social/political issues out there to give a voice to through Art, only every man and his little toy dog seems to be jumping onto the band wagon, ya know? So I thought I’d remain autistic for a little while longer and leave that particular genre of Art to those who give more of a shit about about the bigger woes of the world than myself. ;-P you do realise that I’m kidding, don’t you??? ;)
andreasphoto
love the formal strenght of it. and reading the comments above – well it’s a more “workplace
safe” work of yours. nevertheless less powerful. formidable-mmhh, I know you don’t like the word, but maybe it is ;)JenniferB replied
Oh… I don’t mind the word ‘formidable’ when it’s spoken by you andreas, after all, you are my future husband! tee hee, yes, it is more workplace safe… but seeing as I’m currently celibate… well… you know how it is. ;-) thank you. xox
Leno
Of course!:))
Larry Varley
Gorgeous shot, love the colours.
JenniferB replied
thank you Larry. :-)
Krisso
I think love and hate are actually the same emotion, just expressed in different ways!
Your work is just getting stronger and stronger, and with it, so am I.
Thank you.
xoxo
JenniferB replied
aww… thank you Krisso, and you’re welcome. I never really know what the next picture will be until something triggers and image in my head, lol, whenever anyone compliments something I create, I’m SO tempted to create something that is a pile of sh*t, just so that I don’t have to live up to any false expectations of me! :-)
xoxox
Antanas
great composition, well done
JenniferB replied
Thank you Antanas. I loved your picture of the Afghanistan landscape! :-)
Krisso
Awww Jennifer, but it’s art!... there are no expectations! xoxo
JenniferB replied
is it? Art I mean, or is it something akin to colonic irrigation, a suppository or even an enema instead? ;-)
our timezones definitely do not synchronise well!
xox
eon .
Absolutley Fantastic work
on SOOOOOO many Levels.
AWESOME! MISSY B. AWESOME !
Ciao Bella Isimo XX
(More soon when Im back online. My PUTER Got Sick And is now in Puter hospital. )
JenniferB replied
Aww steve, my poem, (re your computer woes, to you)...
one brick
one store
one window
one computer
one accomplice
one alibi
one night
one throw
one smash
one grab
one flee
one line
one link
online
one love
one wink
zapped
back
2
meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! :-P
tee hee. ;-)
xoxox
;-)
Outdoors2
The image is supercool! But your sidebar is fucking awesome! What controls are there if any? I agree There are none…Sadly Hate has hit the streets of our world in such a vengeance, we have Kids killing kids with no regard for the future of both themselves or their victims.
Insightful words Dear
JenniferB replied
thanks Outdoors2, have you really been outdoors… twice? your very brave… ;-)
take care out there… outdoors…
xox
Outdoors2
Too!
JenniferB replied
2 :-P
Outdoors2
also ;)
JenniferB replied
including :-P
Outdoors2
likewise ;)
JenniferB replied
braindead… hey! tis still a compound word! :-P
Krisso
Nope!... It’s art!... timezones are a bit shit!... Yes, yes they are!
JenniferB replied
I live on Mars Krisso… ;-)
hope you’re feeling okay…
xox
lolowe
Wow…this is incredibly powerful Jennifer. Sometimes you just got to let it out. But I think your image speaks a thousand words really.
JenniferB replied
thanks lolowe, yep, sometimes I do just let it all out… all over other people’s journals like yours! LOL, hope I didn’t piss you off, sorry about that! i was just inspired by your lil ole muse! :-)
xox
lolowe
Nah, it takes a lot to piss me off…or eating my cheesecake without leaving any…that would piss me off lol. :]
JenniferB replied
I loved licking your plate after devouring your cheesecake lolowe… ;-P
Mark Ramstead
Cool idea and execution…
JenniferB replied
thank you mark… I can be very good at executing things… ;-)
quite the multitasker aren’t you? :-P xox
Mark Ramstead
You have no idea, how HARD this is for me…
JenniferB replied
Oh… I think I kind of get the idea how hard it was for you now MtnMan… ;)
Barry W King
This is awesome
JenniferB replied
Thanks Barry.
Can I trade it for your jacket? ;-)
Barry W King
Was it you that asked me for my jacket before? hmmmmm maybe someone else did my memory fades from time to time…I suffer from CRS ….can’t remember shit...
but thanks :)
The jacket, I’m sorry I cannot part with, it was from my daughter a member here as well locustgirl ( Heather King )
And it has a very special sentimenal meaning for me…I simply can’t part with it…but, I’ll let ya try it on for a while though ;)
Bear
JenniferB replied
aww… it’s okay, I was just kidding, and yes, it was indeed me who asked for your jacket some time ago! :
) persistent little person aren’t I? I’m used to getting what I want… but because you made a nice comment, I will forgive you and let you give me your soul instead! :)bye bye for now Mr Bear. xox
lolowe
Ha! You are crazy lol. But I love it Jennifer.
JenniferB replied
Ha! You are crazy lol. But I love it Jennifer.
ssh! don’t tell everyone that! I thought it was them who were crazy!!! :)xoxCiao 4 Now
Jennifer B
isn’t crazy
you see!!! ;)
aglaia b
wow, wheeee!
very powerful stuff girl!
xox ;-)
JenniferB
wow, wheeee!
well with exclamations like that… I wont even begin to ask what’s been keeping you busy for the past 48 hours!!! lol ;-) xox
klezedawg
I’d take the sword
JenniferB replied
but the gun’s loaded and solid gold…
klezedawg
but the sword is a sword
JenniferB replied
then take it, it’s yours :)
Nick Milton
weapon of choice
voice
JenniferB replied
sticks and stones may break my bones but names will…
it’s not entirely true is it Nick? That old saying…
Nick Milton
names? nah gotta cope with them,
what i meant was voice-reason-diplomacy
etc etc
JenniferB replied
reason and diplomacy are weapons of choice?
Nick Milton
yeah,i think they are,most nations try to reason with diplomacy before we start blowing heads off.
naah,ill rethink,my weapon of choice
a nuke.wouldnt use one,but gotta admire the power and engineering in it.
Snoboardnlife
This is an awesome image!
JenniferB replied
thanks Snoboardlife. :-)
Snoboardnlife
You’re welcome, keep up the good work
MuscularTeeth
seriously cool image.
JenniferB replied
thanks MT. :-)
just another idea that’s been sitting on a text file for a while now…
Peter Evans
JFC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You blow me away.
You are one very smart cookie Jen :-)
JenniferB replied
LOL, you sound like deliriousgirl with your JFC Peter! ha! thank you. :
) where have you been hiding the past few days? aww… did you forget all about lil ole Jennifer B…? :( ;)Peter Evans
lol Yeah I think a bit of DG must of rubbed off on me lol
How could I forget you Jennifer, impossible :-)
Just been a little busy, like yesterday I went and assisted in hanging photos for a WAPF exhibition and stole ummm came away with some great ideas lol.
JenniferB replied
Ha! I can’t wait to see your stolen great ideas Peter! lol,
psst… what the heck is WAPF??? Weapons and Pussy Fuckers? lolPeter Evans
LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!
Noooo wanker the Western Australian Photographers Federation lol.
JenniferB replied
LOL – it’s impossible for me to be a wanker Peter, I have no loose dangling appendage on which to wank, lol, that being said, how the hell would I know what the damn acronym is for some pretentious Aussie photographic federation??? :-P WAPF – Wayward Asshole Photographers Fart! hahah
Peter Evans
LMAO
hey where’s the good natured side of you gone ?
I reckon you would make a damn fine wanker.
If ever you want some practice please let me know.
They aren’t that bad they promote work from people in photo clubs.
JenniferB replied
oh… I’m kidding Peter, I’m sure they’re not bad at all… a little perverted maybe… but not at all bad! LOL
Per E. Gunnarsen
Brilliant work and title!
JenniferB replied
thanks Per. ;-) xox
don quackenbush
great image
Michael Kienhuis
Wonderful weapons! Great work
JenniferB
thanks Don and Michael… hopefully you’d choose the paintbrush or pen, yes? ;-)
ToastedGhost
What a wonderful Icon!
Brilliant
I too write and recite Rant poetry
read my last one?
JenniferB replied
oh… sorry I missed your comment TG, I’ll take a quick look at it soon, I’m being abducted by aliens at the moment! ;-) thanks.
Adrian Donoghue
Fabulous concept and execution.
JenniferB replied
Thanks Adrian. :-) xox
ToastedGhost
Do they wish to have their wicked way with you?
Destroy the human race?
Or they just wish to meet with our leaders, in which case
maybe we should buy some masks from the local joke store?
JenniferB replied
they want to explore, experiment and probe… to find out if I’m a human being or not… ;-)
ToastedGhost
Can i be an Alien
I make some great mask
I could slip amongst them
Pick up there grunts and sqeacks
I could definitely discover if you were human
though sometimes I wonder if I am?
JenniferB replied
Oh… I’ve never cybered an Alien before! okay!
Can you slip in and out of consciousness? skin? time zones and atoms?
I already know that I’m not human, I just need you to discover what it is I am instead! :-)
amarica
Powerful image Jennifer. I think you will figure it out, that is what you are doing and will continue to do until the day you move from this world to the next. Our minds cannot be stilled. Broken hearts mend and break again. Spirits sore and plunge like waves in the ocean. You know you are alive because you feel and think and speak out and touch others with a personal part of yourself, with anger at times and empathy at others, with depth and clarity at times, with searching and longing at others. Your heart is tender and that is why you feel so much power behind your emotions.
JenniferB replied
Thank you for your kind words amarica.
Your heart is tender and that is why you feel so much power behind your emotions.
Yes… Sometimes it is… ;-)
xox
Paul Stephen ...
I don t really like weapons , but in this image where they are doing no harm. you depict them with such beauty and yes the pen can be venomous, if s it venting ok ,but if directed ,it can be deadly, lovely piece Paul :))
JenniferB replied
thanks Paul! :-)
gsj0408
bad things happen when I try to hard to “contain” them all
JenniferB replied
Insofar as I’m aware, if you draw the pen you wont get arrested! ;-)
colorblind
I LOVE THIS PIECE
THE BULL’SEYE IS A NICE ADD ON
MY WEAPON OF CHOICE
SHOOTS OUT BLOODY IMAGES
CRUDE MESSAGES
LIKE SEX OFFENDERS ON MYSPACE
TRYING TO INVADE YOUR UNDERAGE CHILD SPACE
TO PLAY IN THEIR PRIVATE SPACE
MY WEAPON OF CHOICE
HAVE MOUTHS THAT CRY AND YELL TO PUBLIC
VOICES GIVEN TO THEM FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SOUL
THAT LOSES CONTROL
WHEN IT IS GIVEN TO MUCH TO HOLD
I LET MY WEAPONS VOMIT MY EMOTIONS
TO CRY OUT AN OCEAN
TO DROWN AWAY MY PROBLEMS
......LOL
JUST SOMETHING OF THE HEAD ….I REALLY LIKE THIS THOUGH
I SEE ME IN IT
JenniferB replied
glad you liked it colorblind, I admire your passion for poetry and Art.
colorblind
its the way i can let my mind go when it gets overloaded
a way to not go insane
JenniferB replied
hey, I’m a professional at being insane, that’s why i’m stuck in the loony bin right now. lmao
madvlad
don,t knock hate it is a word that tells of a feeling we seem? be be given many feelings all have a use to us, we need to explore them each and what they mean to us, alone. and how we deal with the feeling? i have felt hate and was made almost ill by it, but when i looked at it, i found , it was trying to tell me. sometihing abiout me, more then the thing that made me feel the hate, we hate rejection, it makes us feel less, we hate someone taking advantage of us because it makes us feel less,and on and on, you are right hating does not mean you,ll kill some thing or one, it means you are killing your self-most of the time, so we need to exaime or totalfeelings so we know our selfs better and have less feeling that over whelm us, any sense/.
JenniferB replied
thanks for sharing your thoughts madvlad. I don’t hate anyone or anything, to hate anyone or anything you’d need to have to care about someone or something a great deal, which is something I avoid. :-)
madvlad
so you advoid caring, too much/ hm?that is safe ,but lonely,now, i have that weakness. caring too much.but what saves me is?to care fo my self more,and then if i miss palce care- it will not hurt me,or my ego-for they. who ever they are ,are the losers not me,self love is the most important thing you can do for your self-no not pure egotism, just simple love of having your life and being alive in the most wonderful world you know of-yes- there is too much ugliness and self hate that ruins life if you let it,,but you are to be wise and use your good sense you have to read the evil ones around you,with out getting bitter-all will disapoint you all!and lastly you,ll disapoint your self so work on self love and then it easy-to see what is best for your lifes needs and wants which is which and which is really golden—hell! if you think you got screwed? by other-just think in the garden?story how pissed god must have been at the two idiots he made when both of them could not wait to mess up a god deal haha they got free haha have agreat day young lady,and keep unfolding crazy ole man!!
JenniferB replied
I’m not lonely, I live with my fiance, I just think that the concept of the word ‘Love’ is very overrated, much of what you say only holds true and makes sense to those who believe in god, I don’t, I’m an atheist, Have a great day too. :)
Alessandro Flo...
amazing!!! congratulations!
JenniferB replied
thanks Alessandro, hope your day is going well. :-)
blamo
Your fine just the way you are JB …...............big wave to you
JenniferB replied
Thanks blamo! Congrats on the great features! :-)
blamo
Thankyou JB for your top support
JenniferB replied
your welcome, thanks for creating some great images for viewing. :-)
invisible
Hello Jennifer !
just a quick note ..la la la la …I just order ( from blurd ) ” WEAPON OF CHOICE ” by Jennifer B. Worthington ;-)))) smile ! bravo !
(i order a Hardcover , Image wrap ) ...la la la la ..have a magic day …..love, andre
JenniferB replied
Thanks invisible! :-D I hope you enjoy reading it! You’ve made my day! :-D
invisible
JUST A QUICK NOTE ! I RECIVED THE BOOK 3 DAYS AGO …JUST WONDERFUL …I”M VERY GLAD TO HAVE A COPY !
AND BRAVO TO YOU JENNIFER ( again ) ;-) love , Andre
JenniferB replied
Oh I’m so glad you’re pleased with it! Thanks so much for buying a copy, you made my day! :-) xox