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Portrait de Nade

 

“Portrait de Nade”. Copyrights Alice Odilon 2012. All rights reserved.

L’histoire commence avec son visage enregistré régulièrement par les CCTV.
Nade avance dans la lumière des néons, offerte aux écrans de sécurité.

Sa peau exacerbe la luminance des effets de blancs. La regarder c’est la toucher, tant le voile de son épiderme se fond dans une poussière de porcelaine.

La fluidité de ses joues relie les traits de poupée asiatique.

Des sourcils délicatement précis au ton de roses bulgares, des taches de rousseur réparties en petites étoiles sur la chair des pommettes et les ailes du nez, lui donnant un air de campagne, quelque chose de rare et citronné, une Eau Impériale de Guerlain.
Cette radiance du visage inaugure le sentiment d’une perception amplifiée, fondamentale.

Ce teint de peau éclaire l’histoire: par sa faute Nade mourra plus tôt.

Le masque de poupée raconte les sentiments les plus durs à supporter.

Le visage de fulgurance avalé par les yeux.

Le nez, la bouche s’érèctent en petits phallus roses.

Les lèvres tendrement tendues demeurent délicatement fermées.

Au lieu de crier.

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Isabelle Caro’s soul welcomed in Akan’s Building

In the building, many flats were still available to rent, and it’s not a good thing to leave rooms unoccupied for a long time, as you know, intrusive rats are always looking around to invade warm vacant spaces.
That’s what Akan was worried about and determined to erase the invaders, in her special anorexic area.
When Akan and her friends were told about Isabelle Caro’s death in November 2010, they decided to allocate an apartment to her, even if her body was definitively gone.


“The Empty Flat of Isabelle Caro”. Copyright Alice Odilon 2011


“Isabelle Caro.”Photo Olivero Toscany.

It sounds certainly like a sanctuary, but this flat wouldn’t be opened to the public and would stay empty and full of soul as long as the building existed.
Every day, somebody from the building would come to clean the flat and check the efficiency of the rodent traps and repellents.
It was an obsession for Akan; she suffered from a musophobia since childhood and was unable to deal with it, being tired of tiptoeing around her fears.
Then she realized her terrible anxiety was directly linked with her own anorexia, and influenced a huge part of her excessive self-control behaviour.
Every strong intrusive element, like food, skin contact, eye contact, aggressive interlocution, virile interpellation, was felt like a threat.
This included rats, intrusive, hidden, clever and tough, permanently threatening to appear, to come, to attack.

Rats were unpredictable, and, even hidden, they were present.

Akan felt their omnipresence.
But in a sort of  indecent blind inconsistency, Akan had finally accepted that rats exist and that they might shoot up suddenly in front of her, or behind her.
This means that Akan had dared to live, to deal with her morbid anorexia, she had accepted the violation of food in her body, she had accepted to feed herself.
Still the ghost of rats remained, as an eternal symbol of extreme menace, alarm telling her: “Remember we’re here and you’ll die”.
From now on Akan was able to deal with food, as she got an adequate amount every day, enough to run every day 15km,  but on the other hand, she stayed very weak, concerning relationships with strangers, especially noisy virile persons.
It was possible for Akan to feel Isabelle Caro’s deep suffering, continuously haunted by her hunger, by her needing body,  and this terror to be feed by force in hospital.


“Isabelle Caro”. Google Images.

Anyway, Isabelle Caro sparkled in the sky as a border-line movie star and had been so representative of X bodily metaphor of anorexia, that Akan wanted to
preserve the peace of her embodied soul in this unfurnished white apartment on the 11th floor.

The apartment n° AX 28.

Clever brilliant Isabelle Caro had targeted the Zero incarnation all her life, the X bodily metaphor of anorexia, looking permanently for an embodied soul in a minimal body.
The divine tight face of Isabelle with these jewel-like turquoise bright eyes, erected in the dark blue sky.
Her sad mouth, her tiny nose, her fragile hair were going to dry in the labyrinth of death.
But her eyes would stay everywhere in this flat, in the elevators of the building, in the parking, in the steps, like CCTV.
She had flirted with the risky possibility of existing in a nearly dead body and had rigidly wielded her piercing hypnotic regard every second of her life, to stay alive without food and peace.
This physical envelop in which she had been decked out during the martyrdom of her life, has failed and claimed mercy for an infinite wild abandon.
So for now, the Flat AX28, got a name on the door: Isabelle Caro.
Such a strong silence on the 11th floor, such a bright glimmer coming from inside this place, to light the way of lost anorexic people in the street going nowhere, rejecting rescue, or running away from jail and medical assistance.
Because anorexia is much more than a physical symptom.
Anorexia is asking us to modify the codes of our language.
Something is wrong with our communication, something escapes, unnoticed, sadly ignored by stereotypical understanding.
The place would be staying “empty” to serve the “non-dit” of Isabelle Caro.

Alice Odilon. 10/01/2011

Une hirondelle en cellule

Le mardi 13 juillet 2010, Akan est descendue à la ville pour chercher les médicaments dont elle est accoutrée depuis quelques années.

Fluoxetine, Atarax, Temazepan lui servent de boulet pour la tenir en vue, en probation.

Akan les avale quotidiennement avec impuissance et crédulité, pour “aller mieux”.

Cependant le pharmacien ne trouve pas les drogues commandées et convaint notre héroïne de revenir dans 3 jours.

Déçue d’avoir été oubliée encore une fois, Akan se rend au centre commercial dans le but de se délester de son malaise en soustrayant d’un étalage un objet encore inconnu d’elle même et symbolisant le réconfort, les caresses d’une mère invisible.

- Un objet étalon de son manque et fétiche de sa victoire sur la douleur du manque.

Elle s’engage sans aucune détermination, sans énergie, avec l’envie compulsive d’être enregistrée par une caméra de surveillance capturant l’évidence de l’offense.

Peut-être aura-t’elle la chance de se faire arrêtée par la police, seule à même de noter son existence minuscule, sa trajectoire kamikaze.

Elle se sent vieille, laide, désespérément triste, finie.

Son corps maigre et trop veiné ne retient plus les regards en arrière.

Si des yeux la remarquent c’est pour juger de sa gracilité quasi cachectique.

Avant les hommes se retournaient sur son passage tant elle était jeune, racée, élégante.

Aujourd’hui, malgré la même silhouette, l’élégance innée, les gens ne la remarquent plus, car elle a vieilli et cela lui vaut d’être transparente, insignifiante.

Les hommes ne cherchent que la chair adolescente appelante, celle qui promet des délices les plus interdits.

Le visage ne compte plus dans ces rues où la survie de l’espèce passe avant tout language.


Le 13 de ce mois d’été est la veille d’anniversaire de la jeune fille au tatouage, et Akan n’arrive pas à gérer cette date, tant les liens qui l’unissent à la gamine tombent à terre dans des flaques d’eau.

Ce lien secret aurait dû aider Akan à vivre et assumer la réalité, mais il enlève toute vie, toute joie, toute paix.

L’enfant au bras tatoué l’a reniée, rayée de son vocabulaire affectif et lui fera payer le prix d’avoir été une mère anorexique photographe.

Akan ne pensait pas qu’un jour sa fille aînée la trahirait, lui reprocherait d’être une artiste et sa mère en même temps.

Aujourd’hui les rêves de pérennité et d’immortalité se sont effondrés, plus rien ne sera plus comme avant.

Akan sait désormais que son oeuvre sera oubliée.

L’hirondelle sait que tout est perdu.


Cette conviction toute fraîche donne naissance à un chagrin angoissé, venant de nulle part et s’installant comme un smog aveuglant.

Il arrive qu’une branche assassine son arbre.

“Il arrive qu’une branche assassine son arbre”. Copyright Alice ODIlON


Alors Akan entre dans un store de produits de beauté et s’empare d’un panier rouge en plastique qu’elle remplit de laits pour le corps, de masques hydratants, de crèmes de nuit, de crèmes anti-rides, de lotions anti-âge et sort du magasin avec allure et détermination, passant les portes de sécurité, en déclenchant une alarme foudroyante.

Les heures suivantes Akan est au poste de police, confrontée à des interrogatoires, des prises d’empreintes, d’ADN, des flashs de caméras, des heures en cellule vide.

L’hirondelle captive.

Pendant cet après-midi là elle s’apaise enfin dans ce nouvel enfermement la retenant au monde, lui disant, “tu existes car tu as transgressé la loi”.

Tu as été remarquée, entendue, ton cri a été entendu.

Et cette prison vaut tous les bras humains par le silence et la paix.

Son corps maigre devient vivant dans cette cellule apparemment vide et cependant pleine de cris et de colères passées, de peurs et de regrets.

Akan se rend compte de sa propre réalité humaine.

Elle admet cette prisonnière en elle.

Ses mains, ses bras longs et fins, ses genoux osseux, tout son corps devient une sculpture vivante et profonde et Akan découvre sa vérité la plus solide.

Akan feels very bad on the 13th of july 2010 in the afternoon, unable to deal with anything around her.

Her body has been suffering the last hours; the exhaustion caused by the insomnia and the lack of fluoxetine, has grown for the worse, to give birth to a dark absent mood, and endless sadness.

Akan comes down to the city to purchase drugs she has been using for a few years.

Fluoxetine, Atarax, Temazepan are prescribed to her to control her mind.

She admits them with impotence and credulity, “to getting better”.

However the pharmacist does not find the ordered drugs and convinces our heroin for returning in 3 days.

Disappointed to be forgotten once again, Akan goes to the shopping mall with an aim of relieve herself from her terrible faintness by withdrawing a displayed unknown item, symbolizing the peace, the safety, the caresses of an invisible mother.

- An object symbol of her lack and fetish of her victory over the pain of confusion – .

Akan enters in the huge commercial gallery without any determination and any energy, with the compulsive desire to be recorded by a CCTV camera capturingthe obviousness of the offend.

Perhaps will she have chance to be stopped by the police force, the only one able to notice her tiny existence, her kamikaze path.

She feels old, ugly, hopelessly sad, finished.

Her thin body does not retain any more the glances behind.

If eyes notice her it is to judge her cachectic slenderness ratio.

Before the men were turned over on her passage as she was young, racée, elegant.

Today, in spite of the same silhouette, innate elegance, people do not notice her any more, because she is mature and for them she’s worth to be transparent, unimportant.

The men seek only the appealing teenager flesh, that which promises most prohibited delights.

The face does not count any more in these streets where the survival of the species passes above all language.

The 13 of July is the day before the birthday of the young tattooed girl, and Akan does not manage this date, so much the bonds which link her to the “gamine” fall to ground in puddle pools water.

This secret bond should have helped Akan to live and assume reality, but it removes any life, any joy, any peace.

The child with the tattooed arm has disavowed her, striped her of her emotional vocabulary and will make her pay the price to have been an anorexic photographer mother.

Akan would not have thinking that one day her oldest daughter would betray her, would reproach her to be an artist and her mother at the same time.

Today dreams of immortality crumble, nothing will not be the same.

Akan knows from now on that her work will be forgotten.

This very fresh conviction gives rise to a distressed sorrow, coming from nowhere like a plugging smog.

It happens that a branch assassinates its tree.

Then Akan enters in a store of beauty products and takes a red plastic basket that she  fills of milks for the body, hydrating masks, creams of night, anti-wrinkle creams, lotions anti-age and then leaves the store without attempt to pay, passing the security doors by setting off a striking down alarm.

The following hours Akan stands at the police station, confronted with interrogations, flashes of cameras, hours in blank cell.

During this afternoon she finally finds relieve in this new retreat into silence retaining her far from the world, telling her, “you exist because you transgressed the law”.

You have been noticed, heard, your scream has been heard.

And this jail is worth all the human arms by silence and peace.

Her thin body becomes alive in this apparently empty cell and however full with cries and passed angers, fear and regrets.

Akan realizes her own human reality.

She admits this captive inside her.

Her hands, her long and fine arms, her bony knees, all her body becomes a human sculpture and Akan discovers her main genuine truth.

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