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Ferial Ninn Azawakhs

Rahmat, Soundjatta, Schergui, Zitounia, Nour, Saousanne, Tilelli, Basma, Tizemt, and Tamima were the azawakhs of the pack of Ferial Ninn.

Unfortunately, we got financial problems and were obliged to leave France being unable to keep our dogs.

They were abandoned by us. We didn’t have the choice. It was question of survival.

Several months after I made an investigation about the pack of Ferial Ninn and knew they were safe, rescued by sighthounds lovers.

Ferial Ninn Blood will continue to improve the breed and will give birth to Jewels Azawakhs.

For them I’ve done a serial of pics: “Le Radeau de la Méduse”. 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“La Conscience”. Alice Odilon Copyrights 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“For Rafaella Anderson”. Alice Odilon Copyrights 2005.

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Akan’s Tower ou le monde du morcellement

Si je devais révéler des secrets sur Akan, je ne pourrais pas en dire très long quant à sa grande intimité, car en fait Akan est particulièrement transparente et complexe.

Il suffit de retrouver dans chacun de ses amis de la Tour Akanienne (symbole de l’envolée, du chemin vers le spirituel), une facette de ses multiples personnalités.

- La Main coupée “Syndra Raynaud” représente le trauma de la perte, la coupure de la vie par le vide. Elle se dit “Illusion Corporelle”.

“Syndra Raynaud” the Phantom pain. Alice Odilon. Copyrights

 

C’est aussi le fantôme de la perte, sa mémoire, son fétiche.

Elle représente une mesure draconnienne sauvant la vie du corps menaçant de pourrir.

Symboliquement, Akan y est très “attachée” car le Syndrome de Raynaud joue le rôle d’étalon de l’anorexie; on pourrait dire “signe de reconnaissance”, “un code d’appartenance” au clan des anorexiques.

 

- Blythe Somat, la poupée-Fleur est un être extraordinaire aux pouvoirs magiques et en même temps épongeuse de souffrances.

“Blythe Somat, the Flower-Doll.”Google Images

 

(Elle sert de médium entre l’enfant hémiplégique, anorexique et schyzophrène et Françoise Dolto qui parvient à communiquer avec elle en la ramenant vers la parole, et donc, l’action de se libérer.)

la Poupée-Fleur n’a pas d’yeux, mais elle a des pétales sensorielles, elle ne parle pas car elle n’a pas de bouche, mais elle souffre et crie en silence, elle a un corps de poupée, mais sa tête c’est une fleur.

{Françoise Dolto a eu l’idée de cette poupée-fleur lorsqu’elle était enfant. En réalité, elle la conçoit en 1946, au cours d’une consultation où sont venues à sa rencontre Bernadette, une petite fille anorexique de 5 ans et demi, et sa mère.

Celle-ci se plaint de ce que sa fille n’aime ni les poupées animales ni les poupées humaines.

Accablée par la haine envers elle-même qu’elle ressent chez cette petite fille profondément paranoïaque, Dolto lui propose: «Et pourquoi pas une poupée-fleur?».

Aussitôt, elle donne à la mère les indications pour la fabriquer, devant Bernadette, qui saute de joie à cette idée.

Recouverte de tissu vert, cette poupée n’a ni devant ni derrière, ni mains ni pieds, et figure la seule forme humaine, la stature droite que l’enfant peut tenir en main.

Le volume figurant la tête est juste surmonté d’une corolle blanche de marguerite.

Autrement dit, tout comme une interprétation, cette poupée a été conçue entre les différents protagonistes de la scène analytique.}

{“Le Dr Lacan a le sentiment de plus en plus vif que la poupée-fleur de Mme Dolto s’intègre dans ses recherches personnelles sur l’imago du corps propre et le stade du miroir et du corps morcelé.

Il trouve important que la poupée-fleur n’ait pas de bouche et après avoir fait remarquer qu’elle est un symbole sexuel et qu’elle masque le visage humain, il termine en disant qu’il espère apporter un jour un commentaire théorique à l’apport de Mme Dolto.”}(Intervention sur l’exposé de F.Dolto-Marette).

Elle est très proche de celui qui souffre, toujours très proche, car elle écoute, sent, ressent, et donne son corps en passage vers la vie.

 ”Akan” ou l’ébauche du Self.  Alice Odilon 1/08/2011. copyrights.

 

 

- Le timide Ragdoll “Weaky” aux yeux bleus Caraïbes, le sauveur impuissant, est le seul être masculin de l’équipe.

“Weaky the Ragdoll cat”. Alice Odilon. Copyrights 2010.

Il absorbe du regard, il parle très bas, il est comme Blythe Somat, soumis à la méchanceté des autres, mais aussi très clairvoyant et lunaire.

- La Poupée “Whouh”  au masque de loup, avec son corps de petite fille menue et tonique, vêtue de sa robe écossaise au col mousseline, et dont on ne voit jamais le visage.

Weaky and Whouh, the wolf masked doll. Alice Odilon Copyrights 2010.

On ne voit de son apparât féminin, que sa belle chevelure lourde et ondulante qui s’étale sur son dos.

Whouh est tout l’inverse de Weaky, le Ragdoll bouc émissaire, elle devient une créature offensive, protectrice, n’ayant pas froid aux yeux, toujours prête à bondir pour défendre les plus faibles.

Whouh incarne une victime masquée devenue guerrier.

Le masque de loup a un rôle de bouclier; il sert à intimider l’adversaire, et sert à cacher la vulnérabilité et l’innocence de Whouh.

 

 

- La Poupée androgyne “Isee”, maigre et nue, chauve et belle, racée aux muscles longs et secs.

“Isee”, la flamme des Jane DOE. Alice Odilon. 2011. Copyrights

 

Ce personnage là revient de l’enfer de la prostitution, de la rue, de la route en solitaire.

Elle a vu des personnes mourir dans les fossés, des femmes assassinées coupée en morceaux, elle connaît le désespoir total des suicidés, elle est la flamme des Jane et des John Doe.

“Isee” symbolise l’abandonnée, la personne oubliée, sans nom, sans toit.

- “Mova”  l’avatar marathonien, est une athlète éternelle au coeur solide, aux jambes longues et déliées, et au regard fixé vers l’avant toujours.

- Allegraka c’est la prof de vol, la figure bridge entre le sol et le ciel.

Elle twitte, tumblre, digg, wikiote, facebook, elle envoie des messages sur le web, pour parler de ses amies de la Tour, des messages sans aucun commentaires de quique ce soit, car personne ne les lit.

- Akan se trouve dans chacun de ces personnages; parfois décide, souvent se tait et laisse l’équipe prendre la bonne option, parfois disparaît dans sa chambre pendant des jours, pour dormir et s’oublier.

Tout cette merveilleuse équipe partage les heures de la vie dans la Tour Akanienne, Paradis des hirondelles, centre de traitement pour anorexiques, et immeuble gratte-ciel HLM immense aux couloirs infinis.

Puis je vous parlerai des patientes du centre de réadaptation de la Tour Akanienne…..

Dans le prochain poste………

Bonne Nuit les Petits….

PS: J’oubliais Betsy Mac Call, american paper doll, si plate, si fine, si intense, déchirable et souffrante.

 

Betsy Mac Call, the American Paper-doll. Alice Odilon.copyrights 2010.

Alice Odilon. 1/08/2011. Tous droits réservés.


One of the most searing Portraits of doll’s desperation ever put in Akan’s story.

It’s time to tell about essential, minimal, brutal things in Life. Isn’t it?

Akan had tried terribly hard to postpone this moment when a dark whispering murmur of the wind would came.

But it happened despite that.
This wind was the announcement of death.
Somebody in the tower was going to leave tragically.
This doll didn’t deserve to die alone nor endure this hard life.
This black day was actually a relief for this tenant, a squatter in fact.

She had been hiding in a basement for a few days after having run away from Bresson-City.

Her name was Doll “Mouchette”.


She came from the county of Bernanoshire, where she had lived in hardship in Bresson-city.
There she had faced major difficulties: a dying mother, an alcoholic father who was absent, and a baby brother in need of care.


She had been subjected to derision from her teachers.

“Nothing but a little savage” was how the Bresson-city school-teacher had described fourteen-year-old Mouchette, and that view had been echoed by every right-thinking local citizen.
Mouchette had been alone, completely alone, against everyone.”



Her mother was too sick to get out of bed,  Mouchette had been forced to take on the motherly tasks, preparing everyone’s meals and feeding her younger sibling.

At one point, it even looked like she might try breastfeeding when there was no fire on the stove to heat the baby’s milk.



She had been forced to be an adult even before her body was capable.
Also one dark night she had been raped by a bad man in a wood.


As tragedies continued to pile up, she had decided to leave Bresson-city and to take her life into her own hands, like a last act of defiance.
Mouchette doll was the most beautiful of dolls despite her tangled black hair, her dirty nails, and her wooden clogs.
Akan didn’t know Mouchette, until she had gone to bathe in the river with her friend Betsy, anorexic paper-doll and the severed hand of the doll who had disappeared.
It was the spring of 2011 in April.
It was still very chilly and the wind was twisting and twirling the petals of the young trees in bloom.
This supremely delicate dance had attracted a sad person.


“Mouchette finds rescue and peace in the nature”.

A young doll soiled by the earth and misery, with black hair matted and covered with dust, was sitting, stretched out on the ground, on the green bank: Mouchette.

Betsy who was unable to swim, given that her paper body would disintegrate, was also seated on the other side of the river, looking after the towels of her friends, Akan and Syndra Raynaud.

Akan and Syndra were playing in the cool water splashing each other and diving into the depths.
Their bodies glided in the light, with the thinness of Akan’s body magnificent in the light of the ripples, her skin both pale and livid embellishing the river.
Syndra, the severed hand of the doll who had disappeared, with her long fingers, mimicked the touching grace of a starfish.
Syndra became a mischievous mermaid jumping in the silvery waters; her fingers did not feel the slightest cold or the slightest increase in temperature: a kind of provisional harmony!


Suddenly a cry, Betsy, panicked, helpless, witness of the worst, the death of Mouchette.


Mouchette had let herself roll from the top of the bank like a lifeless puppet carried away by her own momentum down the slope.

{Of course, she does it alone, so maybe Bresson isn’t letting us off the hook after all.

Maybe putting up with a hard life leads us to even harder, more isolated positions.

In the prologue, Mouchette’s mother refers to a stone that is inside her, a metaphor for her illness.

But then, it could be where we all end up, weighted down, and the more we struggle, like a bird ensnared in a poacher’s trap, the more it hurts.

Bresson only releases Mouchette by letting that full weight land on her, and thus pushing her under.}

Mouchette let herself slide into the cold water, drown in icy water, on this beautiful sunny morning in mid-April.

Akan and Syndra had seen nothing, but felt the tumult of the circles in the water left by the despairing leap of the Doll Mouchette.


Betsy stiff with pain, dried out with sadness, stiffened even more before the now empty water.

It was April 14, 2011, Doll Mouchette would leave an enormous hole in the lives of Akan and her friends.

Bresson, director of the masterpiece, says:

“Mouchette offers evidence of misery and cruelty.

She is found everywhere: wars, concentration camps, tortures, assassinations.”



For Mouchette. Alice Odilon December 2010.

Amputated Hand trapped for 20 days in bathroom

The forgotten Hand”. Copyright Alice odilon 2010.

“A indeterminate old hand suffering from a mysterious “vasospastic disorder” causing discoloration of the fingers, has survived being trapped in her bathroom in a building in ‘Disruptcity’, in Soreshire for 20 days after the door lock jammed.”

That was the headline on “Disruptcity Gazette”, everybody could find out the 4th of December 2010.

- “See what happened in our building!”, exclaimed the numbed Ragdoll cat to his partner, the wolf masked doll.

- “Gosh! I cannot believe it!

Please read me this right now!

- “An amputated flayed hand has survived being trapped in her bathroom for 20 Days.

The room had no window or phone, so the cold hand was unable to tell anyone but she tapped on pipes during the night, hoping to alert her neighbours.

The Hand-doll trapped in the bathroom”. Copyright Alice odilon 2010.

They thought the noise was  usual ghostly souls dancing around and didn’t noticed it as something unusual.

But one of the occupant Akan.K.  realised they had not seen the pensioner recently and called the authorities, who sent in a rescue crew.

Firefighters broke into 7 th-floor flat in Disrupcity and reportedly found her lying on the ground in the bathroom, in a “very weakened” state.

The amputated hand, who has not been named, had survived on warm tap water for almost three weeks.

She is now recovering in hospital.”

“You could hear banging sounds, like a hammer, even at night,” one neighbour told local media.

“But we thought they were our friends the disembodied missing souls playing around.

We said: ‘They’re having a good time.”

Quite nosy but it’s understandable, they need to stretch their ghostly legs!…. If we had known!”

- And we were sleeping thoroughly ignoring all about this tragedy!

- We must visit this heroic survivor in Hospital!

- Please my Love, take your bag and go with me! told the suddenly enthusiastic Ragdoll to his beloved masked doll.

In two minutes the couple was standing on the pavement at the bus stopping. There, Akan, Blythe Somat, Betsy Mac Call were still waiting.

- I suppose we go to the same destination? asked very excited Betsy.

- Sure! replied everybody. It’s our duty to support Miss Syndra Raynaud. (it was the name of the poor rescued hand).

Several minutes later, our team was facing frail  S. Raynaud in her cold bed in Hospital.

She was very bad, on a pic of a spasms attack:

The team saw and felt the sudden changes in Miss Raynaud’s fingers, triggered by a mysterious stress and deep anxiety.

The skin blanched, turned white, then blue. Fingers and toes tingled and  Miss Raynaud told they’ve began numb, and felt nothing anymore.

Then Akan came near the diseased hand and try to rewarmed her.

The skin flushes pink or red, and then Syndra claimed she got throbbing and soreness in her fingers as the blood surged back into the tiny blood vessels.

Miss Raynaud was swelling visibly and seemed in morbid fire inside.

Please help me to refresh me!

I’ve to tell you, I am the hand of a thief doll who was caught by the police two years ago in Iran.

“The Punishment”. Copyright Alice Odilon 2010

As you know the punishment in this obscure Muslim land, is to practice extreme punishments, such as chopping off the hands of thieves.

That what happened to my owner, a kleptomaniac young doll, lost and confused in a faked tempted world.

I know she survived of this “divinely endorsed “mutilation, but she run away and disappeared.

But I’m still with her, you know, I’m a sort of metonymic trope, a relic and substitute as well.

That’s why I take some andromorphic dolly attitudes with my fingers; one becoming the back bone and the head, the other 4, becoming my limbs, you know????

I have to represent her, in a memory of her.

- I see, said Akan, we have to help you to find this missing doll.

It’s vital for both of you.

that’s the only way to recover for you.

You’ll find peace and relieve when you’ll be reunited.

Please stay calm and avoid any stress.

I know it’s quite impossible because it depends on the life of missing doll, but please be confident, we’re with you and we are going to help you when you come back to the Tower.

All the team was reinforced by the arrival of a new (mutilated) member, which was weak at this stage, but very responsive to what happened here and out there in the dark, where runaway thief doll was in danger.

Alice Odilon. Copyright Novembre 2010


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