HOLD WHILE I SHOOT
summary
For
the first art piece of Words are Weapons we have this art piece called Hold
While I Shoot, we start with a black background, with a weapon in the middle.
There are a bunch of words forming the shape of a gun, with words coming out of
the barrel representing smoke like it had just been shot. There are bold words,
tiny words, big words and with different fonts. The words are in white and
gray. Some of the words like “Faggot,” “Worthless,” and “Bitch” form the length
of the barrel. “Wasted,” “Outcast,” “Freak” are few of the words that form
smoke coming out of the barrel in a spiral motion. The trigger is made out of
“Pull the trigger. You will not be missed.”
Analysis
The gun of words creates a powerful statement that words
are weapons as well. Words are damaging to someone’s self-esteem. Those are
permanent scars that we see in ourselves even if they are not visible
physically. The gun states that not only you have to be physically hurt or
abuse to bully, calling names to others is bullying too. Is verbal bullying. In
a way you are shooting at them putting them down, firing words, taking down the
victims of bullying by hitting them with words instead of punches. It shows
that words are as powerful and hurtful like physical pain. The gun also
represents that words can cause more damage. With every time someone says
something hurtful is like taking a gun and shooting you with it, and leaving a
permanent scar on you. The more someone “shoots” at you the more wounded you
become.
#2
HANG THE PAIN
Summary
Is
black, no light, it’s just you. All you hear are the mean, hurtful things that
have been said to you. You can’t take it no more, so you get a weapon, its
long, you tie it around. It’s all the words that had been said to you, they are
big, bold, tiny, different colors, and font. It’s a noose of words. The knot
has the trigger saying “Just kill yourself, Just kidding, Not really.” In
between those bold big words are small ones saying, “Die Bitch, die bitch, die
bitch.” The loop of the rope is made out of smaller words like “you will not be
missed.” “You suck,” “just jump, get it over with.”
Analysis
This art piece symbolizes the struggle that many victims
of verbal bullying endure in their daily lives. The noose is a way to end
everything, to end the pain, the suffering, the laughter. When you can’t take
the pain no more, you feel like you had no other choice but to use a weapon to
make it quick and fast. The noose is a symbol that when you hang, you hang all
the pain with it as well. The rope are is the struggle that bully victims have
to deal with, for example, each braid on the rope is a word, a sentence and a
phrase that the victims have heard or been called. Like the phrase “just jump,
get it over with.” If that’s not something to go and find a weapon then I don’t
know what else would trigger someone to do it.
#3
CUT THE PAIN OUT
Summary
You
can’t take it anymore, it’s the constant abuse, the anguish of those hurtful
words. “Waste of space,” “uncool,” “loser,” “failure.” All these plus more
words are forming a weapon, a weapon that will find you a way out of all the
pain. It’s just you, it’s all black, and all you see are the words, playing in
your head forming a shape. They are big, small, bold, white, and gray. You see
the words “No one likes you,” on the edge of the blade. The words are in the
shape of a knife. The handle is made out of “Coward,” “failure,” “uncool.” The
tip of the blade has “dumbass,” and “ignorant.” It’s sharp with a very pointy
tip.
Analysis
This art piece of a
knife represents that words are stabbing, hurtful pain. It symbolizes that the
words are stabbing you like if someone was actually using a knife to do it. The
pain of the words being said to you is driving you to the edge of no return.
Where once you use that knife of words the pain is gone. We say that words
aren’t hurtful but they are wrong, they are a more dangerous way of weapons. We
don’t actually need to use the weapons itself but those words form the weapons
that someone would use. Mostly on themselves. The knife is an example of that.
The bullying of verbal abuse will drive someone to commit suicide
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