Creative Process - Dance of Muses
In the course of making this painting, like it often happens, my mind wandered places that are quite strange and interesting; one could...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Oct 16, 2023
- 2 min
Creative Process - The Gardener
I completed this piece yesterday after working on it for about a month, on and off. Despite its small size, the level of detail involved...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
Aghori
The boy pondered whether it was possible for two opposing things to be true at once. In his state of decay, he was somehow receiving a...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Aug 5, 2022
- 1 min
The Serpent
He said, "I killed the beast, that part of me is dead" And I laughed and yanked his stomach out of his mouth I pulled him around town...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Jul 12, 2022
- 1 min
Night Poems
You bit off more than you could chew and regurgitated a world yet to be formed rains of frogs and flowers Febrile neon fingers touch...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
Conversing with Mind at Large
I understand now The need for regeneration, passing by destruction Obsessively reenacting the drama of nature on the playing field of...
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Sebastien Clermont
- May 13, 2022
- 1 min
Ode to my Liver
From the vantage point of a temperate gargoyle I felt my senses start to undull The abstinence produced a high My body so used to the...
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Sebastien Clermont
- May 13, 2022
- 1 min
A counsel
Remember the riddle you were asked before you were born Why are you here, but to learn and report back To a Sphynx who may be wise or mad...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Jan 27, 2022
- 1 min
Good Times in Babylon
You dig but can’t find a bottom Touching shapes in a dark room A blind expanse of mystery at the nucleus The thing that keeps you...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
Enantiodromia
I chose a particular form of masochism that ritualizes pleasure and transmutes it into pain. It has lodged itself so deeply into my brain...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
This is a drunk poem
You are the great blocker I once communed with the mind of nature but now it stays mute You are the great protector You shelter me from...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
The Gardener
What happens when you notice something unfathomably wrong growing from a good source, like a fruit of death upon the tree of life? Do you...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Sep 22, 2021
- 6 min
Eros, Thanatos, Kairos
Eros Your most romantic moments come from what some describe as hookup culture. You cherish the juvenile excitement, isolated in time and...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Jul 24, 2021
- 2 min
The Guru
When I met him again he was no longer the most powerful man in the world. His presence was that of a harpooned whale; the aura of a...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Jul 22, 2021
- 3 min
Anamnesia
Gnosis is the Greek word for “knowledge” or “insight”, an ancient idea that seems relevant to spirituality as it exists in today's world....
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Sebastien Clermont
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
Day / Night
We never really sleep. A spontaneous flashback came several months after an entheogenic experience I had one night. It was a remembering...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Feb 8, 2021
- 3 min
Skinner Box
Somewhere in the world there is a rat in a cage who is scratching at a malfunctioning button with its tiny paws. The scientist who set up...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Vertigo
There's a vertiginous quality to life that we spend much of our waking hours trying to keep in check. To have sprouted from the earthly...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
A breach
He had been swimming in the guts of life, among putrid amoeba and choking tentacles. As usual, Grace then showed its face through the...
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Sebastien Clermont
- Jan 15, 2021
- 1 min
Children of a Mad God
Observing the events that are unfolding in the world at large, And the raw material of greed and confusion that drive them mirrored in my...
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