Ziolkowski's paintings are indeed wild and hallucinatory, maybe even grotesque to say the least about their effect on the viewer who spectates them. But their canvases are inhabited by strange, bizarre and frightening characters that only increase viewer s curiosities into Ziólkowski s universe. The body becomes dissected to the point of surreality as Ziólkowski collides the worlds of Hieronymus Bosch and Philip Guston as a disfiguration of society s humanity and folk-lore tales not just from his native country of Poland but also ancient Greece, André Masson and Frank Zappa for their outlandish representations and depictions of the Hyde to the world s Jekyll . The viewer is reminded of Jacques Lacan s theory of the other and ego-formation as conceived at the point of self-recognition, thus the paintings become reflections of the artist himself and the Untitled gouache on paper portrait becomes the closest photograph of Ziolkowski.