Confined to their bed of suffering in the hospital, some patients saw Annabelle walk out one day. Under the guise of an elf, disguised and made up in shades of pink and acid, this half-real half-fantasy character smiled at them, then asked in the ear. “But you’re going on a trip. Have you prepared your luggage well? Above all, above all, don’t forget to put the best memory of your life in it… By the way, do you mind telling me about it?»
This meeting outside the circle always revives – often for the last time – the memory of an outburst of joy. “I do not defend myself in front of the tormented. I’m not afraid. I welcome. And I know that my greatest defense is my joy,” murmurs Sandra Meunier, an art therapist who has dressed Annabelle for twenty years, in a tone of evidence.
An antidote to cruelty
The scenography of these meetings is the result of years of work, training and observation. After a master’s degree in modern literature and years of dance and theater studies, this native Draguinyan drav…
Source: Le Figaro
