"Compared to film, which is intrinsically locked to the duration of the piece, I really appreciated the permanence of the medium. When I returned full-time to painting, the AIDS crisis was here. Friends were ill or dying. My first paintings were really about this, but I was using old Christian myths as a framework to hang my experiences on.
B O D Y: What were those myths?
Daniel Barkley: Cheerful chestnuts like Saint Sebastian, Salome, Ship of Fools, The Harrowing of Hell and Judith Beheading Holofernes…For me Saint Sebastian was symbolic of the young gay man, diseased and dying from the poison arrows that pierced his skin. More recently I’ve rendered him with the arrows removed to signify his survival. During the time of the plague in the Middle Ages, this image of Saint Sebastian was often prayed to because Europeans symbolically associated the arrows with the Black Death."
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