Secrets is a series of small-scale works pulled directly from my sketchbook. These pieces serve as a means of giving form to the aspects of myself that usually remain unspoken or suppressed. The faces and figures function as emotional proxies, or scapegoats onto which I project inner-conflicts. I deliberately interrupt these figures with overlaid text, imposing harsh judgments, confessions, or revelations that disrupt and complicate the image.
Most works in the series are intentionally small and intimate in scale, mirroring how secrets, when carried over time, quietly distort self-perception and warp the way we see ourselves.
Good Enough
Mixed Media on Canvas Board
8” x 8”
Wanted to be Heard
Mixed Media on board
8” x 8”
How Crazy Am I?
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Nomad
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Run
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Fragile
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Summer In Heat
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
I Still Miss You
Mixed Media on Cardboard
6” x 9”
Sad
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
The End
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Lost
Mixed Media on Paper
8” x 10”
Caught
Mixed Media on Wood
11” x 14”
Contemplation
Mixed Media on Paper
11” x 14”
Danger
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Traumatized
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
So Much Pain
Mixed Media on Paper
9” x 5”
Still Alive
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
I don’t Take my Medication
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Trash
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Wasting My Life
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Sagittarius
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Ruined
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Doesn’t Matter
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Alone
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Anything
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
True Believer
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Gone
Mixed Mefia on Paper
6” x 7”
Tell Me Anything
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Imposter
Mixed Media On Board
8” x 10”
Existing
Mixed Media on Paper
8” x 10”
Call Me Baby
Mixed Media on Paper
6” x 7”
Eric Rottcher ©2025