The Vampirial Lupus Codex is a ritual poster for those who live with chronic illness, uncertainty, and the long night of endurance.
Neither medical diagram nor fantasy illustration, this work presents lupus through a symbolic framework of five creeds — Night Walkers, Day Walkers, Half-Blood, The Marked, and The Familiar — acknowledging the varied lived realities of illness without hierarchy, shame, or spectacle.
Rendered in stark black-and-white Gothic iconography, the Codex draws from occult manuscripts, medieval marginalia, and anatomical symbolism to create a visual language of survival rather than cure. The imagery does not romanticize suffering, nor does it reduce it to diagnosis alone. Instead, it treats illness as an identity shaped by vigilance, discipline, adaptation, and resolve.
This piece is intended as:
a declaration for those navigating invisible or misunderstood conditions
a talisman against dismissal, minimization, and erasure
a reminder that endurance itself is a form of mastery
Printed in high-resolution grayscale, the Vampirial Lupus Codex is designed for studio walls, personal altars, clinics, or private spaces where truth matters more than comfort.
This is not a poster about illness as weakness.
It is a codex of those who persist.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)
• Giclée printing quality
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
The Vampirial Lupus Codex is a ritual poster for those who live with chronic illness, uncertainty, and the long night of endurance.
Neither medical diagram nor fantasy illustration, this work presents lupus through a symbolic framework of five creeds — Night Walkers, Day Walkers, Half-Blood, The Marked, and The Familiar — acknowledging the varied lived realities of illness without hierarchy, shame, or spectacle.
Rendered in stark black-and-white Gothic iconography, the Codex draws from occult manuscripts, medieval marginalia, and anatomical symbolism to create a visual language of survival rather than cure. The imagery does not romanticize suffering, nor does it reduce it to diagnosis alone. Instead, it treats illness as an identity shaped by vigilance, discipline, adaptation, and resolve.
This piece is intended as:
a declaration for those navigating invisible or misunderstood conditions
a talisman against dismissal, minimization, and erasure
a reminder that endurance itself is a form of mastery
Printed in high-resolution grayscale, the Vampirial Lupus Codex is designed for studio walls, personal altars, clinics, or private spaces where truth matters more than comfort.
This is not a poster about illness as weakness.
It is a codex of those who persist.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)
• Giclée printing quality
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
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