Saint Sebastian

its corpse its more literal narrative corpse by the side of the road

did you pick saint sebastian because saint sebastian was killed with arrows and yeah but survived and became a saint and right yeah

yes totally and also because there were a lot of vulture feathers around the deer because when i first when i first found the deer it was being eaten by the vultures which is a whole other whole other parallel entangled obsession really with vultures.

And so I painted, I painted some of the deer, the vulture feathers also gold and kind of like arranged them around the deer in a way that reminded me also of the arrows of St. Sebastian.

So she shows tremendous bravery and actually going.

yeah yeah absolutely and then we get immediately get into this like scene on the boat where she's traveling to the island of saint sebastian in the caribbean and it's such a like interesting scene where she talks about like the beautiful stars and it's almost like the guy reads her thoughts and says now everything is dead here

yeah she meets the plantation owner on the ship and he's he's like on a down mr holland yeah like uh she's going to take care of his wife and she's admiring the beauty and he can kind of read her thoughts and he's like no it's not as beautiful as you think it is um he's got some banger lines like the glitter of the sea is putrescence of uh and um he was it uh everything good dies here even the stars and yeah later

the line the line i wrote down is uh no beauty here only death and decay

It's not actually Jesus.

It's St. Sebastian, who was basically killed by spears, I believe.

And that's what's depicted.

That's why it was spears.

So it's

not actually Jesus, even though for like years, since first watching this, like many years ago, I always thought it was a statue of Jesus.

But it's actually St. Sebastian.

And I only found that out through doing more research and research.

That was even the problem then.

I wanted to be St. Sebastian because you get to pick in seventh grade.

A

saint.

Yeah, but that was the thing.

That was the problem.

I chose St. Sebastian because I was in love with St. Sebastian, or Sebastian Bach from Skid Row.

Oh, my God.

And then what was our other one from Carrie? Oh yeah.

That's St. Sebastian.

That ain't Jesus.

Cause he got, he had gotten shot up by all the arrows.

It was a very Jesus pose.

People who wanted to paint young men, right? Yeah, they wanted to paint...

That's why they painted St. Sebastian.

So that, like, the church didn't come burn their house down, right? You know what I'm saying? Right? So anyway, back to Poltergeist.

Yeah, it's interesting because it isn't like a straightforward depiction of everything.

He did actually kind of run into a controversy with that because he covered the artist Abusi and had like a woman as Saint Sebastian being crucified and shot full of arrows.

Which was like so widely like progressive for the time.

It's so cool to see someone take those liberties and kind of trust the audience to understand.