Volume 1 Issue 1  | The unofficial Eric Alexander fan magazine |15 August l 2000

 

         WHY CAGED BIRDS SING
 
 

	Above:  Eric and Aysan Celik

There are people that cut themselves, burn themselves and break their own bones.
Self-mutilation has remained almost ignored for a long time. In the fields of psycho-pathology and general practition the problem is now beginning to be studied more seriously.

The reasons for this behaviour are many and varied.
Many “cutters” claim physical and sexual abuse during infancy.
A large number have not, however, been subject to these forms of abuse.

The temptation to cut oneself becomes overwhelming and the physical pain represents, in itself, a way of overcoming a much greater and more intimate suffering.

Recent studies show that through these gestures of self-infliction the mind of the cutter provisionally achieves a state of balance.

“Why caged birds sing” is simply a story. It neither intends to probe deeply into the subject of self-mutilation nor even remotely analyse it scientifically.
It is purely an account of a boy and a girl. Four days of brief encounters in Central Park. He, a loner with a bizarre pastime. She, a “cutter”.

Both outcasts, each has created his own dimension of survival and this “self-removal”, from everything that surrounds them, gives birth to the hearth from where they will, perhaps, help each other along the way.

E.A
 
 

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