Dabrowski’s

Mixed media sculpture | 22" x 19" x 11" | BKMV Annual Art Exhibition, 2015

“The breakdown of personality is also its beginning.” — Kazimierz Dąbrowski

Shattered windshield glass, found in transit, forms the emotional core of Dabrowski’s — a sculptural meditation on disintegration as a generative act. Anchored in Kazimierz Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration, the work explores psychic collapse not as pathology, but as precondition for re-formation.

At the center: fractured glass, collected and reassembled to preserve its breakage. Around it: a dense wire structure — both containment and chaos — evoking the recursive, unstable architectures of interior life. The figure, rendered in white, carries a shard from the core, ascending along a precarious incline. Not heroic, not salvific — but in motion.

This is not allegory. Nor is it recovery narrative.

It is structural empathy for breakdown — as event, as condition, as method.

Material choices remain deliberately unresolved: driftwood, industrial scrap, crystalline remnants. Each element resists closure. The work situates itself between violence and tenderness, between debris and reconstitution.

Dabrowski’s does not illustrate a theory. It emerges from it — an embodied articulation of the tension between disintegration and directed growth, formed in a period when language had not yet arrived, but making had.