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despair

To lose all hope: despaired of reaching shore safely.
To be overcome by a sense of futility or defeat.
Complete loss of hope.

Une hirondelle en cellule

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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 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 .


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 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, 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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Epluchures

Alice Odilon 1981-E-5


“Les petites robes en pierre”. Copyright 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 : des hommes, des chaussures, des robes, des manteaux, des vestes, des montres, des rendez-vous manqués, des négatifs perdus, des appareils photos aussitôt revendus, des chiens adoptés sitôt abandonnés, des attentes par millier, jamais exaucées.

“Les vêtements noirs”. 1977. Copyright Alice ODILON

Akan vieillit de plus en plus et jète de plus en plus de choses.

Il s’en est fallu de peu.

Akan est avant la mort, mais certainement jamais cette image de gloire dont elle rêve toute sa vie.

Tout ce temps passe si longuement, il n’en reste que deux enfants, d’autre.

Dans le passé, la foi en  sa diversion creuse  des tranchées glissantes dans sa vie hésitante.

Et là maintenant il faut admettre, que ces années de réflexion, de réclusion, de différenciation n’aboutissent à rien.

Le principe d’épluchure semble finalement déterminer sa vie.

Accumuler les pertes, perdre les histoires, en tas de copeaux de peaux.

Différentes villes, différents noms de rue, différentes adresses, et toujours la même quête: qu’il ne reste rien que du commencement souvent déjà fini.

Akan est ce qui ne sera pas………/………

(à suivre…)

24/04/2010

Copyright Alice ODILON

“La Housse aux oiseaux”. 1977. Copyright Alice ODILON


Peelings


In 50 years peelings will throw themselves in some dustbins; initially episodically then accelerating exponentially as time passes.

It goes without saying that periods of crisis brought about a frenzy of collecting in the life of Akan:

men, shoes, dresses, coats, jackets, watches, missed meetings, lost negatives, cameras immediately sold, adopted dogs abandoned instantly, thousands of expectations never realized.

It is a close run thing.

She could be the woman which she had been sure that she was, would be, before her death and even after in unread books.

All this time went so slowly and there only remain two children, nothing else.

In the past the basis of her diversion had gouged deep and wide in her faltering self.

And now she has to accept everything, that these years of reflection, no rescued life of difference, only produce wrinkles, an intelligent tiredness and reconciliation of a fifty year old woman.

Her daughters are gone now since a long time.

What’s left is the delicious memory of their beautiful faces and their bird-like chatter.

The principle of peelings seems finally to have determined her life.

Accumulating losses, losing out on everything, – a pile of pieces of peelings.-

Different towns, different street names, different addresses, and always the same quest:

that there only remains a new start that is often already ended.

Akan is what she won’t be…….

Alice Odilon Copyright 2010.

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Portrait of missing person unknowing she’s missing

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In her book “The Missing person guide to love”, described with talent, the of a missing person. Astonishing.

“Portrait of Cynthia Feliks, the One rejecting ”. . Copyrights. 2009

 

Portrait of Patricia Johnson: Missing person from Vancouver Downtown. Alice Odilon. Copyrights 2009.

 

Susanna Jones excels to describe the loneliness of a person.

Alice Odilon. 8/08/2011

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Rehab Tower Clinic/Anorexia addiction treatments/in Akaland

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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 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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Infinite Anorexia

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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 “”.

Because I can not access the calmness of being me.


“I dressed up as anorexia.”


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.

 

“Beauty of anorexia”. Copyright 2009

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

The 25th of March 2010. Alice ODILON.


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