VIEW IN MY ROOM
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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 60 W x 48 H x 2.4 D in
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This piece is about a friend of mine who unfortunately committed suicide. The figure on the right is Brock, my friend, and the figure on the left is me. The piece refers to a lucid dream I had, in which I was aware of Brocks presence while he stood in front of me. I have never experienced a dream in which I was aware of myself before, and in this moment in the dream I started to contemplate how I could potentially communicate with Brock. I was at a loss of words, while trying to explain to my friend that he was "gone", "lost" or "dead". I found it too crude to attempt to say this to him during the dream. Instead, he simply spoke to me in reply to my silence, saying "I know". I woke up from this dream in a panic. Feeling very strongly that I had just met Brock in the current present, as opposed to the past (which I had been previously thinking about him as). This then refers to the title in which "Sorry about your friend" refers to a statement of past, while "Meet you at the trampoline" refers to a future tense, in which the possibility of having another dream or interaction with Brock is there. On the right side of the image Brock is being covered up, or erased by this different space, while on the left side, the mark covering my eye refers to the vision or dream I had. This piece was displayed at my recent MFA Thesis Exhibition in 2017 entitled "Encounters With the Spectral".
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:60 W x 48 H x 2.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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"The hands of the dead have touched the doorknobs we turn, dust from lives once lived rest in the crevices of our floorboards, those who have passed have spoken to us in dreams." Patrick Stromme (1989) received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and his BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He specializes in drawing and painting. Elements of traditional figuration are coupled with abstraction and paint materiality. Stromme explores themes of ghosts, movement, surface, and time. Stromme’s work reminds us that haunted houses do exist and ghosts can reach out through space and touch us. When Patrick was young, the Stromme family took residence in a home that originally served as a doctor's post when it was built back in 1908. Growing up, he found medical kits, journals, and otherworldly reminders of the home's past life.
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