i serve a god

la donazion(e)

re-enacting the artifice of emotion

singing himself a song armand the cute armand the never done anything wrong

[ arun, armand, amadeo ]

allusions to the fall of troy as civilization-founding act in the aeneid, the city as a woman to be raped in the trojan women etc., creusa as sacrifice in the aeneid again. amadeo is figured as a helen-like prize to be bartered for, cassandra-like to be violated, etc. but being there with marius he is invulnerable; if marius is represented as christ at the last supper armand is christ as sacrificial lamb, eucharist to be consumed. and of course the sacred banquet is as identified by girard a site of sacrifice...the men are described as fleshly, meaty, animalistic, and they are the ones to be slaughtered by marius; however amadeo is very clearly being ritually placed into the sacral position, so this scene is what actually begins his transformation by rendering it inevitable

rice, the vampire armand

an old piece of the vampire armand after the bacchante by jean-leon gerome, lyrics from iron & wine’s flightless bird american mouth

amadeo, a sort of patron saint to me

What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame than that which gave its silvery glow to my faint smile at those who asked it of me? I remembered no one who had ever lived and breathed within my quietly moving form. — The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice

PRINTS are on my fixed post 🫶

inspired by 'the kiss' by yves pires.