Nico Carlucci
Tuesday, August 4, 2009, in the middle of summer. It 's the birthday of Obama and one in which some newspapers publish the photo of the bed where he slept in Michael Jackson before he died. The picture is also track left on the pillow from the head of the artist.
Yes, the pop star Michael Jackson in the eighties world becomes star of a musical signature to which we bow down those who did not believe in the kind of music too "light", and moreover, as in this case, " black.
The image of the "double agony" that we see here was taken on the morning of June 25, the last day of life of the singer. On the bed there are signs of a man who felt "child" means a diaper for incontinence, a doll that usually "sat" on the deck, the box of toothpaste, prayer beads, similar to a rosary, a string hemostatic. While next to the bed are what the artist uses for his "clean" compulsive: rubber gloves, sterile cotton balls, tape patch. Child and "cleansing" compulsive we said, we already highlighted the roles of infantile regression and were experienced by the phobic Michael. But we do not. My goal is another.
I was impressed by the appearance, through this picture, certain categories of the sacred that spoke again of "power". Yes, the power brought to light by the historian of religion Gerardus van der Leeuw that wonderful pages devoted to the subject of his work.
The storm roars, the lightning pulsing spasmodically, the sea swells and the world is loaded, so power through objects, things, crowns belonged to those who died in myth. How can we not recognize the "signs" that the singer has left the relics of the powerful Sacred studied by phenomenologists?
The image of the bed of Michael, taken dall'obbietivo, "stop" the moment of the sacrifice of the victim, the shadow of Jack's head on the pillow is an eloquent symbol of what we are saying. In this regard, he returned with a different mood, memory, the "Holy Shroud", which gives Christ on the sheet, in death, the features of the Son of God
Even the "little" Therese of Lisieux during the shooting extreme hour fatal passage, right on his bed of agony "no comfort". It became the place, a symbolic and concrete, representation and a recording of "last" words of the powerful Santa (it was his sister Pauline who gathered in the journal entitled Novissima Verba ).
The dead man is powerful, the figure of dead-live of Jacko has a corporeal office of miraculous power that infects the items belonged to him becoming, in fact, saving relics, or as will be before long, "memorabilia". They should practice to fans and those who continue to look for in a "Neverland" (name of the park created by the singer) in a "Land of Never", which is not exists only in the uncertainty of the dream. In the Middle Ages
grabbed the living dead to lead them in dances or lamentable horrible marriage. By Michael
, stands, however, his songs in the classic international, will be "fabricated" video-film "unprecedented" in which dancers will appear in his footsteps.
Someone in the future will wonder if the artist is truly dead as has already happened on other American stars because, you know, the characters of myth does not die. This will happen because no one knows yet where the body was brought after the singer's funeral. But a body that is not dead, it belongs to the gods in the savings the corruption of the "tomb". We'll see!
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