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Une hirondelle en cellule
Le mardi 13 juillet 2010, Akan 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 allure 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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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.
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5 anorexic candidates and 3 babies
The Game had begun a few hours after our 5 sure candidates had signed their contracts and swore they would take care of 3 newborn human babies.
One of them was entrusted to Asaël Rienick and Avatan Nihili, another one to Whitswimm and Aza Wahk, and the Third one, to single “parent” : Tige Ald.
Asaël Rienick, the Tightrope sleepwalker and Avatan Nihili the teenager.
Whiteswimm the Ballerina and Aza Wakh the marathonian girl.
Tige Ald the Contorsionnist.
Then the clauses and terms were clearly established: Just 2 Candidates and a baby will get an award at the end of the competition.
In fact this challenge consisted in successive tests of resistance as long walks, starvation, test of courage and ability to fast for months and potentiality to huddle tightly in order to endure extremely harsh conditions of abuse, freezing temperatures, hostile attitude of potential meet people, depression, despair, self-destruction, suicide drive…..
For the first time since the beginning of the competition, Akan came in the meeting room of Rehab Center and told to the assembly all about the rules.
All candidates had to go to main gym hall, and prepare to run for 26,2 miles on tread mill running.
(There is no doubt that challenging an anorexic body to run 26.2miles, takes more than a huge amount of commitment, compromises and sacrifices.)
But were our frail candidates able to take on this challenge?
They would be served all the energetic and tasty breakfast they would need before, whether they wanted or not, they would have to be ready after meal for the Marathon on Tread mill running.
Asaël Rienick, Aza Wakh, and Tige Ald would have to carry their precious treasure: the baby, 8 days old, coming from Orphanage, found on the street, lost and unwanted little creature.
Then after this “easy” run, Asaël Rienick would entrusted her baby to Avatan Nihili; Aza Wakh would do the same to Whiteswimm and Tige Ald would have to keep the baby for another round.
I know it was completely unfair to give to one candidate a double target to reach, but life is like that, cruel and unjust, pitiless as well.
As you know certainly, anorexic people don’t like eating normal meal, absorbing usual need of calories to win and to breathe, either to survive.
Because anorexic people find their strength in a secret part of their self: their embodied soul.
- So, as expected, nobody touched the buffet before the first test of resistance.
Unlike their own starvation, our candidates had been immediately involved in their new babysitter role, and never babies received such nice care and attention.
- You need to know that anorexic mothers, (in despite their past of abused children and deprived of love during their childhood) are excellent mothers, because “L’amour c’est donner ce que l’on a pas reçu”.
- Yes Our candidates presented all signs to be “good-enough Mothers “. (as described by Donald Winnicot)
{“The good-enough mother…starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant’s needs, and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely, gradually, according to the infant’s growing ability to deal with her failure…” (from “Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena,” 1951)}
Each baby had been a priority, (every pair of candidates and solo Tige Ald had been excellent nurses, with love, attention and lot of cuddles accorded to the demanding child they had to take care about.
- Anorexic people have always reserve of energy in mind, and some are able to struggle for a marathon, that means 3-4 hours of intensive effort.
But after, they’re more than empty and have to admit to be feed even a little bit.
Hypoglycemia represents one of biggest threat on Marathon and collapsing can happen suddenly when blood sugar below 70mg/dL. Blood sugars at this level can harm you badly.
“Untreated, hypoglycemia from too much insulin can lead to loss of consciousness and coma.
Severe hypoglycemia is a medical emergency that may result in seizures and permanent damage to the nervous system if not treated.
Severe hypoglycemia that results in unconsciousness is also called insulin shock.”
In despite all of these common ideas of good tips for good runner, our three anorexic young women were able to finish their marathon in less than 3 hours, with baby on the back, sleeping tight and having sweet dreams, feeling secure with “Running Mummy”.
Alice Odilon. 29/07/2011. All rights reserved.
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