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To discuss Vampires in 2020 is certainly different then conversations had of the early days of vampire myth. Today they hold a certain romanticism due to a plethora of modern pop culture. For me, the romanticism of the Vampire came from my first time viewing the adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, I was only 12 and seeing Kirsten Dunst, a 90s nostalgic millennial movie queen, her blonde hair tightly curled and tiny piercing teeth poking out from little lips. Elder millennials were identical in age with young Dunst, and after the movie was released rumours of Kirsten's first kiss being Brad Pitt (so wrong!) sealed a romantic mythical connection to the vampire. The most philosophical question we probably pondered at this young age was, "Why do we have to die?" I obsessed over this and relative questions desperately as a child, grappling with the news that one day, we too, shall cease to exist. My Selkie rendition of Anne Rice's Claudia is a pop culture picture frame, and freezes her in time at an older age and with her sister- for companionship. I always hated thinking of Claudia never experiencing any sort of adulthood or female friendship especially as I began to surpass her frozen age and enter my late teens. In my fantasy she would be happy, living in a gothic home, prancing through fields of the French Countryside, experimenting with different blood recipes. The sunlight thing... well, I don't think the sunlight would truly roast this myth alive. That's way too easy!