Shawn the poet

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Michael Oluwaseun, also known as Shawn, is a Nigerian poet and pen artist whose works explores existentialism, nature, psychology, and spirituality through symbolism. Using the ballpoint pen, he embraces its demand for patience and translation of experiences into visual language.

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FEEDING THE SILENCE: BETWEEN DAY DREAMS

Pen and Acrylic on Paper This piece is a visual diary entry from a moment I couldn’t quite articulate in words. A quiet collision between mind and metaphor. The seated figure represents a self in stillness, not by choi

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2024: Diary of Rotten Faith (A Living Carcass)

What if the thing keeping you alive is the same thing slowly destroying you?

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HEAVY BONES

Pen and poetry on paper This piece is a meditation on inheritance, memory, and the unseen weight of origins. Symbolic fragments emerge as relics of personal and ancestral history, occupying a space between remembrance

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INHERITANCE: When the Soul Remembers

Pen and Paper This piece took a bit out of me. The top half came almost like a whisper, clear, steady, like I was being shown something rather than creating it. The face, the flames, the cowries orbiting the head like an

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THE FOLLOWES

Pen on paper In this piece i was thinking about the relationship between the body and the spirit, but I started wondering: what if the spirit follows the body too? ‎A lot of spiritual and religious ideas tend to place th

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