Dependent On Unhistoric Acts

François-Xavier LALANNE (1927-2008)

" Attentive Monkey II" - 1999

Green patinated bronze

Monogrammed "FxL", marked "SII", numbered "EA 1/4 A" and mark of the founder's stamp "Clementi fondeur"

Don't get me started on Jacob's hair and smiley eyes! Like happy pride indeed!

please tell me you know what I mean when I say that of course Sam has always had a great smile, but there is something so punch-in-the-gut beautiful about it in this specific photoshoot that I literally do not know how to handle it. it is SO much a Sam smile, as you said, and not a Lestat smile, and it is boyish and charming and beautiful and so incredibly genuine and big. he seems so utterly happy and comfortable and it's beautiful to see, almost as beautiful as him with that blush flush and that smile permanently on his face.

Rest in Peace, Tony.

I'll always remember your smile.

"Tous ces etres qui ont precede l'homme et qui sortent aujourd'hui de leurs tombeaux ne semblent-ils pas des monstres? Pourtant ils sont rattaches a nous par des liens originels" ["Do not all these beings who preceded man and who are now emerging from their tombs seem like monsters? Yet they are connected to us by primal ties"] by Georges Devy from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)