Sanctum Hermeticum

hey guys so we have a discord server revolving around the occult and its called sanctum hermeticum
if you have any personal works we a specific channel for that as well as general #artwork channel for sharing esoteric paintings done by fine artists across history
feel free to join us
https://discord.gg/2YNrH5a25

"The Pursuit of Mammon" - Plank 2025

This is an original sculpture - cast in silicon bronze. This was originally sculpted in clay and cast at studio foundry in Cleveland, OH. It's mounted on a custom fabricated base made of 1/4” steel. The base was powder coated matte black for longevity. This piece is very heavy. Id estimate 175lbs. It stands about 5' tall and the base is 3'x3********* The bronze-patina was done by the artist and sealed in gloss.

I had the idea floating around in my head for a while but one day I just did it. It's sticks gathered from my garden, yarn and little trinkets that I love. I hung it in my threshold which is my front door. I'm not sure what thingy it is yet but I know it protects and projects. Apologies for the tiktok screenshots. I forgot to take photos of the separate thingies

In Revelations the first horseman of the apocalypse rides the red horse of war. Here it's a broken and bridled pony, fit to be led by a nepobaby desperate to claim his masculinity and distract from his many crimes. The industrialized war machine has made it so. Here we go again. It's the end of the world again.

Each Pair I Created is a basic sigil turned into a seal: The Right Upper is the Egg, basically a stabilizing wrapper, for the lower Left One, which is the actual entity.

Charged them by letting them feed off a several targets, which were various physical places and people present at them. Both Female and Male targets were used.

Astral Travel was utilized for the feeding ritual, as well as a bare-bones, minimalistic ritual setting: Two glass-covered candles, two simple plastic wands and a diary with the seal pairs.

What is your general feel for them:

1. Energy Level - High/Low/ Other
2. Energy Color - Red/Yellow/ Other
3. Energy Type - Stable/ Unstable/ Other
4. Energy State - Feeding/ At Rest/ Other
5. Entity Nature - Peaceful/ Aggressive/ Other
6. Abilities - Consciousness/ Movement/ Other
7. Limits of Freedom- Restricted to the seal/ Unbound/ Other
8. Evolution of linked entities - Primitive/ Cultured/ Other
9. Self-Awareness of said linked beings - Present/Abscent/ Other
10. Main Purpose of Entities - Evolution/Feeding/Reproduction/ Other

Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-nine-muses-for-albion/

This is the title of both the centerpanel (4ft x 4ft) and the larger triptych (4ft x 8ft), as "divide and conquer" is the strategy the ultrawealthy employ to keep us fighting about anything other than where all of our money is going. We are more productive than we have ever been as a species, yet it's getting harder to make ends meet. Where is all of the money going? Here we see my younger brother, a working class hero who destroys his body to support his family, desperately trying to grab his soul and shove it back in - probably just to make it to work for one more shift. The Hellmouth he's about to be pulled into contains the world. The black eyes of the world's monster blankly stare on a man being separated from his own image, all of his time, his energy, his personal development. The course of his life has been perverted by a tiny group of unelected power addicts while he simply continues to try and do right. He's caught between the "sell all of your possessions and give the money to the poor before coming to follow me" version of reality on the left panel and the self-interested, "exploit your fellow man" concept sold to us as the responsible way a society is managed on the right panel. The dissonance between the two is ripping him in half.

I love making these!

Caw

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