Archive for the ‘despair’ Category
{ Written on July 28, 2010 at 11:58 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Akan choisit d'être une forme parfaite divorcée des ombres des enjeux du réel. Une forme niant le temps, la faim, la haine, la parole, l'écoute. Cette forme vient par impossibilité de rentrer dans le champ de la vie "active". L'échec professionnel de photographe oblige Akan à réussir sa stratégie de décomplitude dans l'allure scopique [...]
{ Written on July 20, 2010 at 5:08 AM, by Alice ODILON }
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 admet avec impuissance et crédulité, pour "aller mieux". Cependant le pharmacien ne trouve pas les drogues [...]
{ Written on July 7, 2010 at 7:38 AM, by Alice ODILON }
La nuit tombe bleue marine sur la ville où s'endorment Akan et la jeune fille, loin l'une de l'autre, dans un quartier opposé de la cité. Elles ne se parlent plus maintenant. Akan dans son lit repense à la demoiselle aux hirondelles. Elle a peur pour elle. C'est dans la peau de la [...]
{ Written on July 2, 2010 at 7:54 AM, by Alice ODILON }
NB: Depuis le début de ce blog, j'aurais dû mentionner que le code est le suivant: Anorexic girl = anta-girl = disembodied person = embodied soul = bodily X metaphor = Figure A = Anorexic girl Amis lecteurs gardez les en mémoire, si vous en avez envie. Reprenons: Après le difficile entrevue entre [...]
{ Written on April 25, 2010 at 9:55 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Chapitre 1 "Les petites robes en pierre". Copyright Alice ODILON 1978. En 50 ans, les épluchures se jètent dans les poubelles; d'abord en petits tâs dispersés, éloignés les uns des autres, puis devenus des monceaux de restes, des montagnes de peaux impossibles. Des périodes de crise engendrent des collections effreinées dans la vie de [...]
{ Written on March 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, by Alice ODILON }
When everything is dead, I get my leitmotiv lifebuoy: reduce my weight, lose my body, lose this embarrassment of the body. Nothing matters, the ugly truth no longer concerns me, I tip my silence and I want to reduce the width of my thighs, as they are monstrously present and parts of [...]
{ Written on March 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Since December 2009 Serbia is on the row for being potential membership within European Union. But Serbia is not in position where they could be expected to enter the European Union. There are a number of reasons why this is the case, and in my opinion, the fact that Serbia is the Bosnian Muslim genocide [...]
{ Written on March 8, 2010 at 9:59 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Honoring one Hero: Jean-René Ruez – the Srebrenica genocide Investigator. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZyCxJWitEw {-(Jean-René Ruez, a senior French police official, was the central figure in establishing the facts about the executions of at least 8,372 Bosniacs in Srebrenica. As a Chief Investigator for Srebrenica appointed by the Hague Tribunal, Jean-René Ruez has spent the past 14 years [...]
{ Written on March 8, 2010 at 3:30 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Speaking of Srebrenica massacre, is to say that I am ashamed of being French. (because I do not agree with those such as President Sarkozy who have advocated the fast accession of Serbia to the European Union for purely geopolitical reasons.) In 1995 I was drowned in a terrible family problem and I had [...]
{ Written on December 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM, by Alice ODILON }
{One of Einstein's great insights was to realize that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing. Matter can be turned into energy, and energy into matter.} The "anorexic field" delivers content because it gets a lack of existence
generating "bodily space-time". The anorexic feels pure energy largely invisible and [...]
{ Written on July 16, 2009 at 9:02 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Fairy Godmother, Marraine de la Princesse refusant d'épouser son Père, le Roi, conseille à celle-ci de revêtir la peau de l'Âne pour se déguiser et se cacher dans la forêt, abritée dans une ferme misérable. {La fée marraine de l'enfant, va dissiper tout malentendu en apprenant à la princesse à ne plus confondre les amours [...]
{ Written on June 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, by Alice ODILON }
copyright Alice ODILON june 2009. "Défi-Jane". Tous droits réservés. As a photographer and as an anorexic woman photographer, I've always used expressionists ways, and border-line ways to express myself with my photographs since 1977. I didn't choose the easy way, the aseptic way, the fashion way to tell the implacable illness I had [...]
{ Written on June 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, by Alice ODILON }
copyright Alice ODILON: 1982 / self portrait. I've suffered from anorexia from the age of 7. Honestly without anorexia, I wouldn’t be here anymore, as this illness kept me alive instead of regressing to a quicker death. It was a sort of survival behaviour and not a lifestyle as it said [...]
{ Written on June 4, 2009 at 3:19 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Jane Doe 522 UFGA She might be my Mama. I would have preferred to get her as a Mum, as mine was the opposite of jane DOE: a predictable conventional person in a predictable well-ordered life with predictable behaviours and common thoughts, and with this addictive faith in mortal fear about different unpredictable people. [...]
{ Written on June 2, 2009 at 3:58 AM, by Alice ODILON }
{ Written on May 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Photo: Copyright "Sans Toit Ni Loi" de Agnès VARDA. Elle marche dans cette plaine tranchée par la nationale. Parfois elle rejoint la route, en grimpant les tâlus et sautant péniblement les fossés. La boue, partout, çà colle aux godasses et Jane manque de s’enfoncer dans cette saloperie. La vie ralentit de [...]
{ Written on May 7, 2009 at 12:13 AM, by Alice ODILON }
An abusive man … shouts sulks smashes things glares calls you names makes you feel ugly and useless cuts you off from your friends stops you working never admits he is wrong blames you, drugs, drink, stress etc. turns the children against you uses the children to control you never does his [...]
{ Written on May 6, 2009 at 11:12 PM, by Alice ODILON }
Jane Doe still lives amongst us all. She won’t give up. I know she’s a recurrent white wave, she continues to die in hidden places in States, cities, roads, cornfields, rivers, lakes, black holes, sordid ditches, forgotten cabins in neglected woods and forests. She always haunts us. I think about her. She already crossed [...]
{ Written on April 20, 2009 at 8:46 AM, by Alice ODILON }
As I used to work a long time on forensic descriptions of cold cases, for my Artwork, I was thinking about to draw my interest to another REAL subject: "The Fox chewing off its paw to escape from a trap." Honestly, after knowing the brutal end of Jane DOE and John DOE, I was expecting [...]
{ Written on April 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM, by Alice ODILON }
As Alain Bashung died on 14th of March 2009, It’s time for me to offer an Artwork to him. After The death of Alain Bashung, I’ve been angry, and lost. I made a series of pictures for him:"Le pieu dans le coeur". These followings are two of them. "Message du coeur". Copyright Alice Odilon 2009. [...]
{ Written on March 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, by Alice ODILON }
If somebody had told me I would be abused, I would have laughed in his face. I grew up in a french wealthy family. Some troubles had disturbed my childhood, there was a black hole in the middle of my mind. "Les mains de Marie". Copyright Alice ODILON 2005. My memory failed about [...]
{ Written on March 6, 2009 at 8:02 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Only one’s own experience can find an echo in others. I was born with anorexia as an unwelcome gift, I had no choice but to live with it. I was likely to be "at risk", so, at 17, I ran away, I left home which was not a home for me, but a sort of [...]
{ Written on March 2, 2009 at 9:10 AM, by Alice ODILON }
– Watch today’s top amazing videos here There’s nothing to say. Pure beauty. (from Metacafe) Four minuten / Chris Kraus 2006. "A draconian prison piano teacher (Monica Bleibtrau) finds her dormant passion stirred by a firebrand inmate (Hannah Herzprung) and her ability to knock out a Beethoven sonata (when she’s not beating up prison warders). [...]
{ Written on February 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM, by Alice ODILON }
"L’Anse du corps". copyright Alice ODILON1984. No clone is free. Je pourrais dire que: l’anorexique écrit avec son corps, résidu du manque et signe d’élégance en défense d’exister.” L’anorexique figure par son corps propre le signe “émacié” (selon Isabelle MEURET) de ce qu’il reste en dehors de l’amour. "Le [...]
{ Written on February 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM, by Alice ODILON }
"He tried to control you with liars and contradictions". Copyright Alice ODILON 2008. C’est un pays vide où elle se débat, une steppe comme une immense place d’un rien. Elle loue cet endroit tel un immense appartement vide. Elle a cherché une place du vide, car sa place initiale n’existe pas et n’a jamais été [...]
{ Written on February 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM, by Alice ODILON }
La figure X joue le signifiant et le signifié superposés, confondus, fusionnés. Absence totale de symbolisation dans l’échafaudage psychique de l’enfant anorexique. La jeune anorexique incarne le mal qu’elle rejète. Elle doit le montrer pour l’exorciser. Elle manque l’étape de la parole élaborée, détachée du corps. Elle se joue maux (mot), maudite, (mots dits), barrant [...]
{ Written on February 10, 2009 at 8:31 AM, by Alice ODILON }
"C’est une Victoire". copyright Alice ODILON 2006. In this picture you can see Akoya the anorexic doll, achieving her terrible target of the starvation in order to get a sort of control about her stressfull life with her anxiogene Mother. Akoya meets the "non-return" point. Anorexia symbolises the ultimate purpose (the Death) for [...]
{ Written on February 10, 2009 at 5:50 AM, by Alice ODILON }
“Mon Âme brisée en mille morceaux.” Copyright Alice ODILON 2008. I will be anorexic all my life. Even I’m safe now because of mixed symptoms (anorexia-bulimia emerged after a long episode of “pure” anorexia), I can say I will be always confused with Love, life and food. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa It’s inside, something will never born. [...]
{ Written on February 6, 2009 at 11:35 PM, by Alice ODILON }
Le cri de l’hirondelle balaye la voix de ma Mère. Maintenant je me souviens…… dans cette chambre d’enfant, couchée à 7 heures du soir, je me souviens du chant des martinets dans l’espace, autour de l’immeuble. Je n’arrivais pas à dormir, [...]
{ Written on February 6, 2009 at 4:17 AM, by Alice ODILON }
"Evidence de traces blanches dans un jardin". Copyright Alice ODILON1977. L’anorexique commet un déplacement de sa signifiance. Comme au théâtre chinois, elle déclare d’emblée son jeu. Sa “figure blanche”, (la spéculaire), (figure de fil), nous annonce la couleur maintenant dans le présent. Elle écrit à l’encre blanche. "Blancheur d’une naissance radicale". "Isadora DUNCAN". [...]
{ Written on February 5, 2009 at 10:42 AM, by Alice ODILON }
Portrait de jeune femme par Gustav Klimt. "Grand Manteau Issey Miyake". copyright Alice ODILON 2001. Dans cette image le ventre et la vue font écho. Voir pour survivre, voir au lieu de manger, voir au lieu de mourir. voir pour tuer. C’est un grand “NON” adressé sans faux-semblant, littéralement corporel, scopique, logorrhéique. Les anorexiques [...]
{ Written on February 4, 2009 at 4:53 AM, by Alice ODILON }
"End up" 2008. Copyright Alice ODILON. As a french woman photographer, I’ve devoted my passion and my prose to photography. (Leonard Shengold maintains that is this vital connection of prose and passion that constitutes insight.) …..And through photography and with it, to women rights. Practising Fine Art of [...]