Venus, 2008

Is your Venus aching for all of womandkind, Rabi? Beautiful image, strong text… who is this writer?

WOW!! Your work is always beautiful…but you really have out-done yourself…this is amazing!!! And your writing is terrific…truly a masterpiece of art!!!

power and beauty in this ..thank you for such a strong message of hope and awareness!!

MY BEAUTIFUL RABI
I am going to be honest with you….
when this one started showing…I said ,oh. thats me when I was younger!
and then I read the side after it caught my eye…..
I am a survivor of 3 male rapes….It has taken much work ,support and prayer to transform the confusion, fear and self-hate those events imposed on me as a young girl and again as a woman.
I told you I recognized you as having a great mission…. it is ordinary men ,who make extra~oridnary choices and lift this life to higher places. /I declare am your partner,I will support you and I will cheer you. I will drink your tears for they are pure and sweet and the salt washes and heals.
I did a presentation once.In a room of more than 100 people,mixed,I had every 3rd person stand , then we were silent for 3 min.Then I read th information you shared. Then I said we were standing,for every episode NOT reported for fear and every person that had died unreported and only silence,and not standing up would keep it that way…
THANK YOU ,Rabi.YOU are a wonderful human BEing.Thank you for your heart and your work . I would like to see us do a collaboration….I would be honored if you would give this consideration.Sincerly,DalzeniaA4P

Venus…ochre Venus
Venus…yellow Venus
abstract image of Venus, magically emotion, Venus
That what you are, the Rabi’s Venus

Oh my this is a stunning piece of art ..a real golden girl..so spiritual ;} Val hugzz

Very powerful piece.. exceptional job.

I get this, I do .. but I also get the difference between “cause” and “immediate cause” It’s the same thing that makes the difference between murder and self defense, even when someone is attacking you. Sadly, they have to make the distinctions.

If I had killed my Ex, which I did not, it would not have been “immediate cause” because it was a slow grinding torture of mostly mental abuse and entrapment that he put me through. However, it would also have been temporary insanity, because of the same reasons. Except I probably never could have proved it.

I didn’t kill him because I believe in God. It doesn’t stop you from reaching the end of your rope, belief in God, but, it can help you constantly find a new end to the rope. ... at least, that’s the way I felt, then.

However, to comment on the bit about reading how this happens or that, I found that there is nothing worse for personal harmony or harmony between peoples – whether separated by race, sex, religion, nation, or what have you – than to read the propaganda of people against other people.

I do not read Feminist literature, as it sways people towards violence.against other people by alleging that all the males are monsters that do nothing but commit atrocities against women all day long and that if any woman cares for these men she is a traitor to her own vagina.

The fact is, some men rape zero women, beat zero women, molest zero females. Some get accused of it falsely, some get accused of it and it’s not exactly false but the area is sort of gray: they are both drunk, she says yes and then she says no. He is now a rapist for continuing, when she is too incapacitated to make a sane and healthy choice, but so is he, so … and some men rape 100 women, go home and beat their wife, and then molest their daughter. So, does that make them all monsters? No! It makes some monsters, some persons with monstrous tendencies who have learned to control them over time, some confused , and some lovely individuals.

I don’t read literature against females, by the way, for the same basic reason. Either way, it lends the same basic flavor to life and breeds ostracism and hatred. I don’t want to hate .. so I don’t read about that sort of hate.

I know it exists, just like I know a lot about WWII. I don’t read Mein Kampf either! Or however you spell it.

All that being said, dig the painting! and I think both it and the writing really say something deep, and, yes, necessary. It’s a painful and confused world out there. Sometimes it’s best, as they say, to walk softly and carry a big stick. The trick is the walking softly!

congrats for Featured this work in Current Issues group!!!

The painting, the writing….speechless. God Bless you Rabi!

Powerful piece and writing!

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this piece into The Best of Yellow

Wonderful work & so great to see it highlighted in the best of yellow!
Beautifully done!