Painting

I Felt Your Shape

Part of my final thesis body of work, “You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue.”

Painting

With Limp Arms I Can Feel Most of You

Part of my final thesis body of work, “You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue.”

Painting

Nerve, Nerves (teary-eyed boy)

Part of my final thesis body of work, “You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue.”

Painting

orbiter (boy)

Part of my final thesis body of work, “You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue.”

Painting

Navigator. ..don't make me laugh

Similar to ‘Nerve, Nerves (teary-eyed boy),’ ‘Navigator. ..don’t make me laugh’ describes a superimposed figure in a forest scene. Cropped, transparent, and horizontally stretched, the dissociator exists in and out of the scene, hardly of either.

Painting

Homesickness

Having spent so much of my life in Waterloo, I find it hard to feel homesick (both when I’m away from it and when I’m there). I remember so much of it as home but when I go back it doesn’t feel like it, not as much as I hoped it would.

Work by

Connor Rothe

Painting

“You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue explores dissociation as the loss of self/reality, as a state of complete mental detachment. Mirroring sentiments of loss, loneliness, disembodiment, and...” [More]

Artwork Collection

All Artworks

6 paintings done between Thesis: Research (September 2023) - Thesis: Presentation (April 2024).

I Felt Your Shape

Part of my final thesis body of work, “You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue.”

With Limp Arms I Can Feel Most of You

Part of my final thesis body of work, “You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue.”

Nerve, Nerves (teary-eyed boy)

Part of my final thesis body of work, “You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue.”

orbiter (boy)

Part of my final thesis body of work, “You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue.”

Navigator. ..don't make me laugh

Similar to ‘Nerve, Nerves (teary-eyed boy),’ ‘Navigator. ..don’t make me laugh’ describes a superimposed figure in a forest scene. Cropped, transparent, and horizontally stretched, the dissociator exists in and out of the scene, hardly of either.

Homesickness

Having spent so much of my life in Waterloo, I find it hard to feel homesick (both when I’m away from it and when I’m there). I remember so much of it as home but when I go back it doesn’t feel like it, not as much as I hoped it would.

Work by

Connor Rothe

“You’re Like Water, I’m Like Glue explores dissociation as the loss of self/reality, as a state of complete mental detachment. Mirroring sentiments of loss, loneliness, disembodiment, and...” [More]