Love Letters to My Vampire

Love Letters to my Vampire is a ficticious story about Cordelia and Lucian. She is a young woman in love with but separated from her vampire love – probably because her parents didn’t approve of her spending time with a man who is condemned to eternal damnation. Nonetheless, the feelings are true for her and she keeps her love alive by writing love letters to him and sending him small trinkets.

The piece also speaks to the Victorian era when vampire lore first became romanticized. At a time when people, especially women were forced to live within the rigid behavioral confines that society imposed on them. At that time the dark, vampire fantasy allowed an outlet for darker tendencies and hidden desires.

Love Letters to my Vampire is a found-art, mixed-media, altered book, featuring an antique photo, which I digitally restored and altered...along with additional objects such as, acrylic paint, toys, candy and feathers.