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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 60 W x 48 H x 2.4 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This piece was created after reading a traditional European folktale called the "Sin Eater" in which homeless people or poor people who often lived on the outskirts of town. These people went by the name "Sin Eaters" and what they would do would consume the sins of the recently deceased. They did this by placing a wooden bowl on top of the deceased persons body. The bowl would contain a piece of bread which supposedly soaked up the sins of the deceased. The Sin Eaters would then eat the bread and the wooden bowl was then burned. They were paid for there services. I found this story to be very intriguing and immediately made visual, what I considered to be, a contemporary version of this story. This piece was displayed at my recent MFA Thesis Exhibition in 2017 entitled "Encounters With the Spectral".
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2016
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Painting:
Oil on Canvas
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One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
60 W x 48 H x 2.4 D in
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Not Framed
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Patrick Aaron Stromme
United States
"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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