Eric Rottcher

My work comes from what I haven’t resolved—memories, fears, contradictions, secrets. Using collage, décollage, paint, and found materials, I create mixed media pieces that hold a tension between beauty and decay, honesty and secrecy, humor and heartbreak; there is no complete or neat narrative. I build up layers, then tear them down, scraping with a razor blade, washing it all away with a hose, and building it up again.

Personal history becomes metaphor, and addiction, grief, and trauma are more than just themes—they are the substance from which the work is built. My process embraces destruction as a form of creation, allowing vulnerability, instability, and imperfection to remain visible. Through this, I seek not to resolve, but to honor the complexities of memory and emotion, leaving space for the unfinished, the scared, and the imperfect.

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