Dracula by Andy Warhol, 1981
Two Unique Polaroid Prints, Each 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

When I was writing this I was reminded of one of the classes I had just taken, called Understanding Story, over January term. One of the first assignments we had to do was to freewrite based on a postcard of an image. I had chosen the postcard of a painting by Van Gogh and had created the character of the Postman, who had a nagging wife and enjoyed eating pastries often, whose portrait was painted on the card. Because of this I was inspired to create a storyline for the character of Dracula as he is seen in this photo. I don’t remember how I came about these images of Dracula, taken by Andy Warhol, but they fascinated me because of how little the public knows about Warhol’s photography. In the same sense little might be known about the person in the photograph, and I thought it would be fun to create a story for the man who may not have had one himself. I was interested in what I could infer based on what I perceived from the photograph, which led me to create a tale of which involved what Dracula liked to do on specific days of the week and what he thought of himself based on what he looked like.