Butterflys and Sissors, one of Clemente's best paintings is a sensuous painting, at once beautiful, mysterious, and frightening. Imagery of pleasure and pain mingle in violet reds, electric green, and blue paint. The composition is stunning and erotic as the women ride each with entangled arms, holding onto the wings of butterflies and scissors held dangerously close to a labia and vagina. The women are butterfly-like with one long exaggerated eye lash on each eye, like butterfly antenna. Sexuality is in flux, pleasure and pain are co-existing, and wings are getting clipped.
    It feels like Clemente steps into the body of a woman when he paints female sexuality because he captures the multitude of possibilities; loss of virginity, childbirth, pain of abortion, pain through loss of freedom, and abundant erotic pleasure that he paints with color, motion, and writhing bodies.
     This painting has many themes that repeatedly appear in Clemente's work. He does sexuality and the body so well. The metamorphoses between human and animal forms is a familiar theme, and suggests dream interpretation and dream imagery about the body and disassociations of the body. The painting also relates to Clemente's interest in mythology and ancient Asian art. Clemente is a master at expressing dualities in life through his work with the figure and many portraits and self portraits. The body's vulnerable orifices, such as the mouth, nose, ears, vagina, are like channels between the body and its fragile essence of sensory perception to the outer world. Clemente can paint how it feels in one's body when someone has turned the volume up, intensified the colors, and envisioned several new ways of seeing.