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You will fly but first you will struggle for life

“Penguins in the Blizzard”. Google Images.

“Every Day, alone in front of the other pensioners of Anorexia rescue center, deep in the most pitiless group of anorexic persons, a truly remarkable journey will take place.”

- That would be the Treatment to recover in Akan’s Tower, announced Syndra Raynaud, the “Right Hand Woman” of Akan.

- “Because for you, guys, anorexic winners, life is like that, harsh and inhospitable”, added inconspicuously, the shy Ragdoll.

Each of you will be a survivor, and will have to deal with eating-disorder, staying alive.

Every pensioner in rescue center, will abandon the deep sweet security of its bedroom and clamber onto the commune area to begin its long struggle against anorexia: a such desolate land, a region so bleak, so extreme, it support no other life.

- “The greatest fear you have, the fear to live, the fear to loose control, the fear to eat, the fear to breathe, you will beat it”.

Said Blythe Somat, the hemiplegic flower doll, who was in charge of anorexic patients suffering from Asperger Syndrom as well.

- “So you will play a game, all together”.

- The game inspired by “The Emperor’s Journey”.

 

1972: Survivors found 10 weeks after plane crash in the Argentine Andes. Google Images.

(Four days after the rescue, a Santiago paper alleged that the survivors became cannibals to ward off starvation.
The group confirmed that they ate human flesh at a press conference two days later.)

 

You will have to accomplish tests of extreme endurance, during which you will have to rely on the united anorexic members of the group, their physical warmth, their spiritual presence, their embodied soul, their disembodied body.

You will share body heat to conserve energy and protect the “protégé” you will have to care about constantly.

You will realize you cannot hate the other anorexic persons, as you did before; because you were scared about their special regard and knowledge of anorexia secrets.

Only Love and solidarity will help to struggle for life.

 

“Child survivors dressed in clothes made from German uniforms”
(One of the youngest survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, shown in the center of the photograph above, was four-year-old Josef Schleifstein.The Communist prisoners, who were in charge of the day-to-day administration of the camp, made sure that the children were well cared for. Note the adult man in the back row wearing a beret to identify himself as a Communist.)

You won’t have food during the periods of survival in the course of which you will have to completely deny yourself and to think only of your “protégé”: the small infant who will be entrusted to each of you, from today, from now.

This Baby is you when you where a newborn, just before anorexia,  before lack of love and good care of your mother.

So you will be in charge of yourself, as a baby and in the same time, as an adult.

It will lead to you to a point of survival self-experiment.

At this point you will have to choose to live or to die.

Alice Odilon. 17/07/2011

 ”The Penguins chicks survivors in the Blizzard”/ Ref: “The Emperor’s Journey”.

And the anorexic winners are…!

On 14 of April 1991, candidates had been selected by the Akan’s Team Jury and time has gone to give their name and identity.

Then, the best European anorexic candidates were revealed at a sold out ceremony which took place at Anta-city in the Flyinglands, on this opening night of the  24/24 Anorexia night, edition of Akan’s Company.

It was 22:42 pm and everybody was exhausted and hungry.

-  More than 333332 votes were cast by fans to decide the winners in the Worst Anorexia category.

- Best Medium-sized anorexic winner: Avatan Nihili, the 23 kg teen girl who was nearly 1,75m and only 15 of age, but was brilliant at school and very shy.

- Best Small weight winner: Asael Rienick, with her 1,62 m and her 21 kg, who had been working as a self-employed “Tightrope sleepwalker” for 4 years, without harming her frail nimble disembodied body.

 

“Self-Portrait” The Tightrope sleepwalker. Alice Odilon 2010. Copyrights

 

- Best New Anorexic winner: Hyppolyte H,  was an ex-obese young cook, who had been starving for two years as Chief cook of Three stars Michelin restaurant, after discovering his true dream to become a trapeze artist.


Pictures of flying trapeze artists at the peak moment of the grab. 

- Best Indoor fast girl: NatNat the ghostly weight-watcher coach who was definitely to weak to coach anybody dieting, but has been previously awarded as the fastest losing weight candidate in UK, that means losing 35 kg in 2 months.

- Best European Anorexic Line-up: Whiteswimm  the pale and pinky dressed ballerina, who was vomiting every meal, even the most frugal one.

“Akoya Ballet Dancer”. Alice Odilon 2007. Copyrights.

- Best Newcomer: Reine Frung: the ex-psychiatrist fallen in storm of anorexia addiction, after being involved in a special unit “Beating eating-disorder” in NHS.

- Best Headliner: Andrée Solange J. : mother of five,  hard worker house wife managing in plus a cleaning company with 7 employees.

- Best Oversplit Ballistic Stretched Anorexic contortionist Tige Ald, who was able to practice super-split equally on both legs without any injuries and with a lot of enthusiasm.

“Happy Contortionist”. Google Images

 

- Best Anorexic Runner: Aza Wakh performing Paris Marathon in only 2 hours and 28 mn.

 

“Self-Portrait” Anorexic Run. Alice Odilon Copyrights 2010

- Best Anorexic dancer: Ana Cunningham, who was the twin of Merce Cunningham, the Master of Choregraphy.

 

“Merce Cunningham”. Google Image.

Finally only 10 candidates have been selected.

Akan’s Team had considered how huge their task was to care of these 10 special persons and decided to close the competition with that, in order to manage these 10 anorexic characters, the best they could.

Alice Odilon. 7/7/2011. All right reserved.

 

Rehab Tower Clinic/Anorexia addiction treatments/in Akaland

I don’t know what happened in Akan’s mind, because one day, she woke up very strong and sure she had a rule to accomplish.

Probably it was her anorexia getting worse every day.

I didn’t dare to talk to her about that, as I thought, it was late in life, and I’ve understood she had become to believe she got a mission on earth.

One day she came to me and informed me: “There was no better place to begin an anorexia addiction treatment than in Akan’s Tower.”

With over 25 years of fighting anorexia on her own, Akan had found the strength to help others anorexic persons to recover from the challenges of addiction and other autistic disorders.

Akan’s tower provided an unparallelled range of services delivered by the “Tenants Team”, the passionate and complete team of Akan’s Friends.

Treatment offered at Akan’s Tower Clinic didn’t only address eating disorders but also Asperger Syndrom among others.

 

Whether you needed to seek addiction treatment for yourself or a loved one, you would find that Akan’s Team offered a peaceful setting that was solidarity oriented.

With its 4 floors dedicated to anorexia treatment, open 24/7, Akan’s Tower seemed to be the best immediate assistance.

Rehab Tower Clinic provided residential primary treatment, secondary care, detox, interventions, counselling and aftercare as well as a dedicated hurt and unfortunate persons and runaway rescue program.

Fact: there was no brochure for fees at Akan’s Tower clinic, as it was free for people in anorexic crisis.

Places were counted, of course, but with its 24 bedrooms and its 5 lounges, 5 kitchen, 24 bathrooms, Akan’s clinic offered a chance to get away from the distractions and triggers in every day life and allowed one to recuperate and focus on getting better.

First step was admission.

And in crisis situation anorexic persons needed immediate admission, as danger of death could be imminent.

The Rehab Tower Clinic opening ceremony took place on 14 of April 1991.

Akan had advertised in newspapers and talked on TV special disorders program.

That was it, she and her precious team were ready to welcome the deadliest and weakest anorexic person.

Only 24 places.

 

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (LISBOA). (la file d’attente pour le casting devant Akan.

 

Akan and her special members (the Tenants team)  had voted to choose the worst figures which would be able to come for selection and discretely favor the most freakish anorexic cases.

It was not a question of social backgrounds; candidates would be chosen on anonymous basis.

Young girls and women were queuing along the main avenue in town center from airport to Akan’s tower and from train station to A. Tower.

Even lost runaway hurt anorexic street workers came from nowhere to find a bed and cuddles in Rehab Tower clinic.


“Akan distribuant ses points aux candidates du casting”.

 

And it made you sick to see dying starving girls collapsing on the pavement without help of anybody, as everybody was dying in this queue of ghosts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. (La queue pour le paradis)

 

Alice Odilon. 16 of  june 2011.

 

La Tour Akanienne ou le lieu des états modifiés de conscience

L’anorexie est la réalité, le “stimuli” dans la vie de d’Akan; un état de veille, un rêve de corps invivable, un sommeil profond d’un chagrin immense.

Vivre simultanément un régime alimentaire drastique tout en persistant dans l’effort d’acuité visuelle, coexistant avec un entraînement d’athlète marathonienne, met Akan en contact avec l’Absolu qui n’est autre pour elle que le Réel.

Il s’agit d’un jeu d’équilibriste entre le rêve éveillé alimenté par une nourriture essentielle considérée comme “pure”,  et l’effort extrême du corps.

Les gens disent: “L’anorexie c’est mourir vivante”, et cependant Akan vit sa vie d’ascète, intensément, esprit au travail, corps au travail permanent.

Cela demande un détachement physique et en même temps un effort musculaire soutenu.

Quand je regarde Akan, je vois son corps rejoindre l’état d’un cerisier en fleur, lié au ciel et la lumière.

Elle semble avoir atteint un niveau de conscience sensorielle élargie, où elle appréhende sa place de manière transparente, infiniment discrète et fragile.

Elle vit le présent sans attendre de bonnes choses venant de l’avenir.

Elle est une bête silencieuse, presque invisible.

Tout naturellement la tour akanienne est devenu le nid des personnes en état modifié de conscience.

La tour est comme un arbre en fleurs.



“La Tour Akanienne”. Alice Odilon Avril 2011.

 

Des personnages fleurs,  simples, perdus dans des valeurs perdues, avec des rêves de bonheur comme celui de vivre dans un tableau de Pierre Bonnard, assis à la table du  jardin sous les ombrages.

 

“Table set in a garden”. Pierre Bonnard.


Alice Odilon. Avril 2011.

 

Anorexia, marathon and achievement

“Anorexia run”.Copyright Alice Odilon Janvier 2010.


Akan la maigre, court  sur le tapis de course depuis 2 heures et déjà son visage osseux ruissèle de sueur, des mots mal dits.

Sur l’écran, les chiffres parlent: 27km, vitesse 13.5

Des kilomètres parcourus sans autre but que d’être brûlés comme des calories condamnés.

Affichés  sur l’écran ces signes vous disent:  Akan court,  respire, suit un rythme cardiaque identifiable, mais ne vous parlent pas de ce monde où elle vit réellement : celui  de la Photographie.

Et pourtant Akan ne mange que des amandes, du pain et  du chocolat et boit du Shiraz avec prédilection.

Jamais d’excès en matière d’ingurgitation, elle a toujours eu peur d’avaler; horreur d’avaler sa mort et sa vie dans une même déglutition et d’étouffer soudainement de n’être plus cet oiseau là qui sautille librement en évitant le chat.

Akan, l’athlète sèche comme la vigne, regarde droit devant, sans plus attendre les réponses à ses années de quête photographique.

Implacable Master photography, rien ne peut ficeler le média, Fine Art Photography, n’appartient à personne, c’est une entité absolue comme la peinture, l’écriture.

Quand on la clef, on est sauvé.

Akan accède aux jouissances  pleines du marathon et au paradis de l’écriture.

Mais jamais l’argent, jamais le pouvoir social.

La rançon de vivre son art libre,  coûte la vie.

Et çà Akan le sait quand elle monte sur l’appareil de fitness le plus populaire.

Alice Odilon. Septembre 2010.

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