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Une hirondelle en cellule

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Originally posted 2010-07-20 05:08:31. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Le mardi 13 juillet 2010, 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.

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 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.


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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The defiance of anorexia

The defiance of Jane

Originally posted 2009-06-23 08:21:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

june 2009. “Défi-Jane”. Tous droits réservés. No clone is free.

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 to deal with,

and the exceptional gift of : sharp-eye, acute lucidity, specific search in the .

At the age of 17, I began my self-portraits, without fear and superficiality, trying to connect with my authentic life.

It was in 1982, my first exhibition in Galerie 666, rue Maître Albert, Paris 4ème, was a time bomb,

because nobody told about anorexia, expect Valérie Valère or Sheila MacLeod and Julia Kristeva.

The secret language of anorexia became public and it was the first time, anorexic self-portraits

were showed in a Gallery (Galerie 666 – PARIS ) in the world. (Gallery closed in 1988).


Today many pseudo artists play with the subject which has became a growth niche.

And now the subject is sterilized and covered up with esthetic commercial pictures they’re sold in Art fairs.

But the tortured soul of anorexia is still here and stays helpless and uncontrollable.

I tried to “enter” my work on wikipedia in order to participate to the “community”.

I was immediately rejected, because I work on the reasons of anorexia and not on the effects.


In addition of this, I’ve watched a program on TV about Stockholm solution in a specialized clinic


for anorexic daughters of wealthy families, which was the perfect demonstration of a growth business.


That’s only industry, diet clinic industry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zajjRbyEo&feature=related


I’ve seen pictures made by deutsch photographer Yvonne Thein.


[These pictures were "intended as a mocking and satirical take on pro-ana".

But these pictures have been nevertheless used as inspiration by anorexic persons. Wikipedia ]

That means for me, these double edged pictures equivocate deliberately.


Because I think this photographer is in love with anorexic .

When I took a close look about these pictures, I realized they were a plagiary of my work already done a long time before:

http://www.aliceodilon.com/index.php?/category/130

http://www.aliceodilon.com/index.php?/category/132


The obvious plagiary is flagrant.

She just copied my pictures.

She stole ideas, style, form, look and feel, identity of my work, my author’s rights with her total witting plagiary of my work.

For me the reason of this big mistake is she’s not anorexic and she speaks about something she doesn’t know.

She just used the symbol of extreme sharp thinness and the shield of virginity and beauty of “blé en herbe” because

she deeply, aspired to this buried, concealed estheticism. There is only a question of myth of inaccesible abstract beauty.

In my opinion, if she wanted to denounce pro-ana websites, she had to show real body of anorexic persons and not this soft,

clean, coquettish “verdict”.

Because the reality of anorexic body is:

( Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa)



•Stunted growth

Endocrine disorder, leading to cessation of periods in females (amenorrhoea)

•Decreased libido; impotence in males

•Reduced metabolism, slow heart rate (bradycardia), hypotension,

orthostatic hypotension, hypothermia, inappropriate sinus tachycardia and anemia

•Abnormalities of mineral and electrolyte levels in the body

•Thinning of the hair

•Growth of lanugo hair over the body

•Constantly feeling cold

Abnormalities of mineral and electrolyte levels

Zinc deficiency

Potassium deficiency

Refeeding syndrome

•Reduction in white blood cell count

•Reduced immune system function

•Pallid complexion and sunken eyes

Patulous eustachian tube

•Creaking joints and bones

Osteoporosis

•Collection of fluid in ankles during the day and around eyes during the night or peripheral oedema

Tooth decay

•Dry skin

•Dry or chapped lips

•Poor circulation (cool peripheries), resulting in common attacks of ‘pins and

•needles’ (Parathesia)and purple extremities


with a constant terrible suffering overwhelming body and soul.


Superficiality is not proper.

Alice ODILON


copyright Alice ODILON June 2009 – “Crutch” . tous droits réservés. No clone is free.

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Help for abused Women

Originally posted 2009-03-06 08:02:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Only one’s own experience can find an echo in others.

I was born with 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 hell.

Cold and destructive.

I worked as cleaner, sales assistant, to pay my Art studies during 5 years.

Art was my life’s sole objective.

I could never have survived without this all consuming and focused passion.

This Art (photography) was stronger than any form of ; it gave me a crucial sense of life.

However I remained a person at risk: likely to fail, fall, and lose myself, because I was gifted with

a heightened sensitivity and a very acute perception, which, in a certain way was very dangerous for me.

When I was 32, I met evil in the form of a narcissistic pervert who, for 3 years, transformed my life into slavery.

I’m convinced, because I was an anorexic person, person, I was susceptible to becoming a victim

of a manipulator, a woman beater.


 


This outcome was a near scientific fatality as all in me was able to connect with , addiction, slavery.

But I’ve been born a second time.

Thanks to Art I have woken up and it has helped me to sit up literally.

It seems simple like that but life can be very painful when one is the victim of someone who is stronger.

My great good luck comes from my rebel side that nobody can kill.

Inside us all we need a little place of light, very strong, virtually in contradiction with the sad rest of us.

In this way we already have the tools to survive, even in the worst of times.

Antablog has been created to answer all sorts of questions that anorexics, abused persons,

or runaways frequently ask.

A sort of FAQ.

This blog is for us, for you, especially if you’re in the dark at this stage.

All the best.

.

This information is provided for guidance only and you are strongly recommended to seek suitable expert advice and help ASAP, if you’re in danger.

www.womanabuseprevention.com/html/emotional_abuse.html

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Anorexic photographer doesn’t find her super model

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Originally posted 2010-06-14 09:26:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Dans les rues de cette ville à moitié vraie, se met à chercher un super model pour son travail photographique.

Dans son sac, elle garde sa caméra et ses cartes de visites, au cas où, peut-être, par malheur ou par chance, elle découvre cette figure ambivalente dans un couloir du centre commercial, ou dans un des super-marchés plein de grosses vies laides.

Cette “A-figure” peut apparaître à tout moment, immobilisant le temps, raflant l’espace qui l’englobe, clarifiant la lumière d’un jet de blanc d’épée, asséré, vif et raide.



“Akan dans la Ville.” 2010

Les choses physiques n’existent plus alors.

Un seul déplacement naît de la lourdeur des autres corps vides de sens, la Figure “A” surgit en silence, en un éclair de seconde, et c’est déjà fini, elle peut s’éloigner aussi vite, ne rien laisser d’elle au sein de la foule des gros morts.

Il faudra la traquer, l’attendre, l’imaginer, attendre des heures dans les galeries du Centre marchand, quand elle viendra, – si elle vient – il faudra l’interpeler doucement, sans l’effrayer, et alors peut-être Akan aura la chance de l’entendre lui répondre.


“Akan à l’entrée du tunnel”. Copyright Alice ODILON. 2010

Il faudra que cela arrive.

L’indice génétique de cette Figure A présente un  phénotype “Bodily X metaphor of ” issu d’un génotype ordinaire sur lequel, l’environnement aura un impact d’acier.

Quel monde terne! Sans la venue de “A-Figure”, Akan photographe, perd son regard dans le temps, perd son temps, perce le vide.

Ce vide, elle voudrait en faire quelque chose de fort.


Akan started to look for a super model for her photographic work in the streets of this half real town.

In her bag she kept her camera and her visiting cards in case, just in case by good or bad luck she came across this ambivalent figure in a corridor in the shopping centre or in one of the super-markets full of large, ugly lives.

This ‘A-figure’ could appear at any moment, stopping time, absorbing the space surrounding her, clarifying the light as a flash of white from a sword, sharp, rapid and firm.

Physicality no longer existing.

Only one movement comes out of the obese masses empty of any sense, the figure “A” emerges in silence, in a split second, and it’s already over, she disappears just as fast leaving no trace of her passage in the crowd of gross living dead.

She has to be stalked, waited for, imagined for hours on end in the corridors of the Shopping Centre.

When she comes – if she does – she has to approached gently without frightening her and then, perhaps, Akan will hear her reply.

This had to happen.

The genetic index of this Figure A has a phenotype “Bodily X metaphor of anorexia” resulting from an ordinary genotype on which the environment has had an immense impact.

What a dull world! Without « A-Figure’s » arrival the photographer Akan remains unfocused in space, wastes his time, staring into a void.

This void, she would like to create something strong from it.

Alice ODILON. 14 juin 2010.

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Rehab Tower Clinic/Anorexia addiction treatments/in Akaland

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Originally posted 2011-06-15 15:33:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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

Probably it was her 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 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 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)

 

. 16 of  june 2011.

 

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