Connor Rothe

Connor Rothe (b.2001) is a multidisciplinary artist from Waterloo, Ontario currently studying Drawing and Painting at OCADU. He explores landscape painting through his experience with derealization (a dissociative disorder that has mentally detached him from reality). This body of work is an ongoing exploration of his perceived reality. His paintings are both photographic and blurry. In this, he attempts to straddle the line between real and unreal.

Painted in acrylic with an airbrush, there is no physical connection between the artist and the canvas. The lack of physicality both in the process and effect of airbrushing relates to the works’ disconnect.