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Ziolkowski is well aware that the compulsiveness that drives his best work often leads to complications in real life. “I think that I’m a bit obsessive, and sometimes that’s my everyday fight,” he says. “If I ever want to have a family and a normal home, I’m going to have to struggle a little bit, because I really like to spend time alone.” He has friends who tell him that he’s too isolated in his studio, that he needs to leave it more often, to find inspiration in the real world. Ziolkowski disagrees. “I have a very interesting life in my studio,” the artist says. “There are so many things happening in my head. It’s a whole universe. People think I’m in a jail, in a cage, but I’m completely free.”
