Akan among the egoists

Avant elle croyait être le Mistigri, la sale égoïste, et pour cela elle aurait voulu être servante

24 heures sur 24, renonçant au moindre de ses propres besoins.

Focalisée sur sa culpabilité, elle ne se rendait pas compte de l’égoïsme des autres et

de leur manipulations envers elle.

S’accusant à tord de leur maux, elle fut le parfait instrument bouc émissaire et

le bouclier des faibles: la sorcière.

Akan vit la vie s’éteindre.

Akan faisant semblant de ne pas souffrir, dominait tous les autres, attentifs à leurs seuls désirs

et besoins insatiables.

Pour survivre à leur égoïsme et leur aveuglement, leurs certitudes, leurs idées claires,

leurs carrières en pleine croissance, leurs voitures, leur cigarettes, leur argent,

leur vérité incontournable, leur racisme extrême,

Akan n’eut qu’un choix dans la vie: l’anorexie ou le suicide.

“La ligne de l’anorexie ou le suicide”. copyright Alice ODILON 2010.


In the past she had believed she was these only one dirty egoist, they were hunting night and day

in order to salve their peaceful lifes, and for this reason she would have like to be

a maidservant 24 hours a day, giving up, ignoring her own essential needs.

Focused on her guiltiness, she did not realized the selfishness of the others

and their handling towards her.

Accusing herself of being a monster, the black hole, she had been the perfect scapegoat

and the shield of weaks: the witch.

Akan saw the life’s death.

Akan pretending not suffering, dominated in secret everybody only caring of its

selfish desires and insatiable needs.

To survive their blindness, their certainty, their clear ideas, their full growing carriers,

their cars, their cigarettes, their money, their unavoidable matter of life,

their extreme racism, Akan had just one choice in life: Anorexia or suicide.

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Akan choisit d’être une forme parfaite

 

Akan choisit d'être une forme parfaite divorcée de l'ombre 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".

Le non-profit de son oeuvre acharnée de photographe oblige Akan à réussir

sa stratégie de décomplitude

dans l'allure scopique qu'elle se donne.

 

"Sea-star doll/ a scopic tyle." copyright Alice ODILON 2010


N'ayant pas le pouvoir d'être reconnue par son travail Herculéen,

elle trouve l'issue d'être une forme dynamique sorte de mustang "hot horse."

Le choix d'une vie ascétique d'athlète, cache la dépression d'être invisible,

pas vue.

Cette façon d'être au monde permet de survivre à l'invisibilité sociale,

physique, sexuelle.

 

"Les corps reflètent les relations sociales qui sont injustes et déformées."

Accepter le rejet du monde de l'Art, son berceau de descendance, déformerait Akan, au sens propre du terme.

Cette déformation humaine de Akan reste tout simplement impossible car porte atteinte à l'image cristallisée

d'après laquelle elle s'est faite, pour durer, endosser les altérations, les blocs de haine, les grands chagrins.

Se dilater, c'est se désintégrer, c'est se morceler, mourir dans un fracas épouvantable.

Alors ballader cette forme aiguisée de minceur, aux yeux de tous, maintient la force A, la force akanienne.

Les restes laissés par Akan se résume à une importante garde-robe, riche de milles tenues pour femme maigre, taille 34.

Akan stocke ces peaux inutilisées, oubliées, rangées, antimitées, car peut-être un jour

la voix s'ouvrira de nouveau au grand défilé de ses panoplies victorieuses.

La forme effilée du corps féminin, incarnée par Akan chante la désinvolture de la conscience.

Perdre la gloire, perdre la visibilité se vit sublimée dans une façon anorectique d'être au monde.

Vieillir n'est pas jouer car maigrir est plus fort.

Entretenir à l'anti-mite cette garde robe c'est croire encore au succès possible d'une vie mondaine. 

Toute une vie sporadique endormie dans des linges et ourlets, coutures et doublures,

disponibles au corps anorexique de Akan.

Une chose est restée constante: l'élégance, l'habit anorexique.

 

Deux enfants, elle a deux filles: Ismene et Poppey.

Son Mari, Sol, vit avec elle dans une grande sérénité et entretient cette paix si chère à Akan.

 

Après deux vies de couple totalement ratées, elle se trouve bien avec ce troisième homme,

brillant, secret, fragile

et plus âgé qu'elle, ce qui lui donne le sentiment d'être une petite fille avec lui.

Au niveau financier c'est le vide total: son oeuvre n'intéresse que les gens attirés

par l'anorexie; les Galeries parisiennes et new-yorkaises, lui ont désormais fermée la porte au nez

en faveur de jeunes talents frais à boire et à jeter.

 

Sol amène l'argent du foyer.

Il travaille en temps que cadre dans une charité bien installée.

Leur appartement de 75 m2 se trouve dans un quartier calme de la ville,

une zone populaire sans richesse ni misère.

De toutes leurs histoires ils n'ont gardé que deux fauteuils carrés: Marquises Jacob,

tapissées de soies turquoise aux motifs de Tassinari et Châtel,

et une vingtaine de lampes en Porcelaine 1800, aux Abat-jours Jupons,

richement décorés de Passementeries Declercq.

 

Il est resté toute la substantifique existence de Akan et Sol dans cet appartement modeste.

Les rêves sont restés, la mode, le cinéma, les livres, Bonnard, Schiele, Klimt, Elie Faure, Soutine, Kafka,

Rachmaninov sont restés intensément vivants sans jamais faiblir.

 

Alice Odilon. 1er Août 2010. Copyright AO.

 

 

Akan chooses to be a perfect form divorced from the shadow of reality.

A form denying time, hunger, hate, conventional language, conventional listening.

This form comes by impossibility of returning to the field of the "active" life.

The financial difficulties of being a photographer obliges Akan to succeed in her strategy of anorexia.

Her Herculean work not being recognized by the Art world, she finds her way out

in being a dynamic bodily metaphor of anorexia.

The choice to live an ascetic athletic life, hides the depression to be invisible, unnoticed.

This sort of lifestyle makes her survival possible in a social, physical, sexual invisibility.

" The bodies reflect the social relationships which are unjust and distorted."

Admitting to be an outsider in Art World, (her pure cradle) would deform Akan, kill her.

This human distortion of Akan remains quite simply impossible because it damages the self model,

which is for her the energy of life,

allowing her to face up to deteriorations, blocks of hate, great sorrows.

To morph, is to disintegrate, diying in a terrible crash.

Then to expose this sharpened form of thinness, for every one to see,

maintains the strength, the "akanian" antimatter.

The remainders left by Akan are summarized in an important wardrobe, rich of thousand dresses, size 34.

" A wardrobe to shine in secret".

Akan stores these unused forgotten skins because perhaps one day the success will come back again

with the large procession of its victorious displays.

The slender streamlined shape of the female body, incarnated by Akan sings the hymn of consciousness.

To lose glory, to lose visibility is to live sublimated in a anorectic way to be in the world.

Getting older is not a worth game because being thin is stronger.

To protect with moth-balls this wardrobe means to still expect possible success in fashionable life.

A whole sporadic life deadened in linens and hems, seams and linings, available to Akan's anorexic body.


A thing remained constant: the elegance, "the anorexic dress".

Two children, she has two daughters: Ismene and Poppey.

Her Husband, Sol, lives with her in a great serenity and provides peace, so precious to Akan.

After two completely missed relationships, she is happy with this third shining,

secret, fragile man, who is older than her, who gives her the feeling to be sometimes a little girl with him.

On the financial level there is total vacuum: her work interests only attracted people by anorexia. 

The International Galleries from now on have closed their doors to her in favor of fresh young talents

which would be forgotten in several months.

Sol brings the money.

He works as a senior fundraiser in a well known charity.

Their 75 m2 flat is in a calm district of the city, a popular zone without richness nor misery.

From their past they have kept two square armchairs: Marquises Jacob,

covered with turquoise silks from Tassinari and Châtel,

and a score of Porcelain 1800 lamps, with rare "juponnés" lamp-shades,

richly decorated with Declercq Passementeries.

There remains all the life of Akan and Sol in this modest apartment,

the dreams remain, the fashion, the cinema, the books,

Bonnard, Schiele, Klimt, Elie Faure, Soutine, Kafka, Rachmaninov remain intense without weakening.

 

Alice Odilon. 1/08/2010. Copyright AO. All rights reserved.

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Infinite Anorexia

 

 

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 me, – This "fake me" I don’t connect.

This essence of consciousness, the body wants to divorce, forget,

transform in a starfish, a swallow, at worst a line, a stroke with an arrow,

but certainly not thick, not heavy, not dark,

not like my dead body.

I am "anorexia".

Because I can not access the calmness of being me.

"I dressed up as anorexia."

 

 

see cafe press.


Something extremely insolently happy , conscious of the death around, everywhere,

something free, flighty and without parents, name, mapped out life,

common habits, increasing odd habits, irreparable age.

Anorexia represents me, figures me, keeps me safe for a while.

My colourless reality without mercy, is tame by my anorexia.

No happiness on earth? – then Imperious anorexia.

No professional success? – then inflexible anorexia.

No return for my work as author? – then intensive anorexia.

Not a smile from this person crossed in the street? – then anorexia.

No yes from my mother? -  then anorexia.

No money? – then anorexia.

No holidays? – then anorexia,

No house? – then anorexia.

No Paris? – then anorexia.

No south of France? – then anorexia.

 

 

"Poupee originelle". copyright Alice ODILON 2009

Anorexia everywhere, always, unrestrained, reckless, uncontrollable, overwhelming my life.

 

The 25th of March 2010. Alice ODILON.


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The original anorexic Effort of Life

Definition of effort:

Struggle, striving.

Effort, application, endeavor, exertion imply actions directed or force expended

toward a definite target.

Effort is an expenditure of energy to accomplish some objective:

"she made an effort to control herself."

Effort involves resistance, speed, power, endurance, strength and the list goes

on when we talk about anorexia.

Application is continuous effort plus careful attention: constant application to duties. 

Endeavor means a continued and sustained series of efforts to achieve some,

often worthy and difficult, end: a constant endeavor to be thin. 

Exertion is the vigorous and often strenuous expenditure of energy,

frequently without an end: out of breath from exertion.


We can speak of "hypertelic anorexic effort" of life.

That means anorexic effort doesn't have any other target that to never stop

and improve the score of thinness and will power.

At one stage, the effort is done because it's the reason to stay alive, as no sense

has been found or retrieved in its own existence.


It's not "dying to be thin", it's starving to stay alive.


We can speak of spiritual fast {that incorporates personal spiritual beliefs

with the desire to express personal principles.}

I'm pretty sure, that common anorexia is an aspiration of spiritual transformation,

because the anorexic person at this stage feels all is wrong with her and her beliefs,

her acquired social behaviours.


She wants to take control of her life.

It doesn't necessary means that the pre-anorexic person is a psychotic individual.

That means there's been a misdeal at the origin or at a certain decisive point.

And something has to be changed obviously for vital reason.

Original, careless Anorexic tactic becomes unavoidable, inexhaustible,

(and certainly unacceptable for those getting the power of the phallocratic establishment.)


This opening phase of taking control inaugurates the need

to be in charge with its own life.

The suffering subject finds the way to destroy her stress

and negative self in "miraculous lack of appetite".

Starvation offers access to another world of new, original sensations.

Previous boring colourless life appears as lifeless, infertile experience.

Prodigious anorexia shows the way of re-birth and freedom.

But there is a very high price for "anorexic takeoff."

The candidate for this ultimate challenge has to be brave and persistent

to get the achievement of herself.

It's all about character.

A sort of endless marathon with no mercy.

And therefore the anorexic person, nourishing herself with nearly nothing,

will show an effective force

as distinguished from the possible resistance

called into action by such a force.



"self-portrait: Anorexic marathon" 2010. copyright Alice ODILON

 

It's all about highest level and mind labor.

The anorexic girl comes from a dark point to a bright one.

She applies a drastic effort to exercise against maximal resistance,

like she would have to lift a maximal load.

 

"La Tête de Cheval" 1984. Copyright Alice ODILON


 

She was so depressed in her previous normal life.

Now targeting size zero, she finds happiness and feels much secure.

There is a sense of this anorexic tactic: finding the light, finding the other way

to live an eternal new imprudent life.

Jeopardized anorexic life incarnates security and future for the courageous candidate.

Probably the anorexic effort (starvation, hyper-activity, high level of sport training,

faith in light) permits to reach the best thing in life.

Because nothing is much better than to be an unfinished person.

 

 

 

"The endless bridge of anorexia".copyright Alice ODILON 2010


The 22th of March 2010.

Alice ODILON.






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