Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Connor Rothe

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.”

“Despite dissociation being so rooted in feeling outside of oneself, it’s an extremely bodily sensation. The dissociator becomes overly aware of their physical presence despite not feeling as though it’s theirs/real. Where ‘Nerve, Nerves (teary-eyed boy)’ and ‘orbiter (boy)’ can be seen more exteriorly in their distant/removed gaze, ‘With Limp Arms I Can Feel Most of You’ positions the viewer closer to the subject in hopes of enacting more of the bodily reaction to dissociation (motion sickness, blind spots, vertigo).”