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Shaye Saint John is a fictional character who appeared in a series of surrealist, campy short films hosted on a crudely designed webpage. Saint John, a product of artist Eric Fournier, was described with a backstory claiming she was a supermodel disfigured in a train accident, who rebuilt her body with a collection of mannequin parts.
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Shaye Saint John
The character of Shaye Saint John is described as a "model", and is shown in videos wearing a plastic mask, a series of wigs and dresses, and manipulating wooden hands on sticks. She is described as having been in a bus accident which resulted in the loss of her arms and legs. Instead of using prosthetics, she adopts mannequin parts, describing them as "fun" to use as replacement limbs.
Saint John wears a series of masks throughout her videos, supposedly because she doesn't want anyone to see what she really looks like. Creator Eric Fournier has said "It's really bad, that's why she wears the mask".
In 2003, the character started a blog at LiveJournal. A YouTube channel named Elastic Spastic Plastic Fantastic uploaded all 56 of the 'Shaye' videos in 2006-2007.
Eric Fournier
In the 1990s, Eric Fournier was a member of punk bands The Blood Farmers and Skelegore when he began working on the first Shaye Saint John film, "Stumpwater Salad." In 2006, he packaged 30 of the videos together on a DVD titled "The Triggers Compilation," on which he was credited as the director, writer, editor and producer.
On February 25 2010, Fournier died, aged 42, at a Palm Springs hospital from alcoholism-induced internal bleeding.
Eric and Shaye
Documentary director Larry Wessel started a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary film about Shaye Saint John and the personal life of the character's creator Eric Fournier, titled Eric and Shaye. The documentary premiered in October 2016.