Sabin Aell: breakBE

Rubber, leather, billboard vinyl, metal, porcelain, paracord, binding adjustments discs 

Cutting. Rearranging. Tossing materials into chaos. Reconnecting. Removing, adding, layering, covering. Reducing thought and placing the analytical mind in the backseat. Letting the moment happen, allowing thoughts to arise and dissolve without attachment. This is the place from which I want to create. 

BreakBE emerges through a process of destruction and reconstruction. Materials are cut apart, fragmented, altered, and reassembled into new relationships. Pieces of rubber, painted billboard vinyl, porcelain, leather, and metal carry traces of previous identities and functions. By dismantling them, I create space for transformation. What once served one purpose becomes something entirely different. 

The work is guided less by planning and more by listening. Each cut, layer, and connection becomes a response to what the material and the energy is asking for in that moment. The process moves between intention and surrender, between control and trust. Forms gradually reveal themselves through accumulation, repetition, and instinct. 

Breaking and becoming are inseparable. To become something new, something must first be disrupted. The fragmented surfaces and layered textures speak to cycles of change, growth, loss, and renewal. They reflect the way identities, memories, and experiences are continuously reshaped rather than fixed. 

This work invites viewers into a space of transformation, a place where discarded fragments find new meaning, where chaos becomes structure, and where the act of breaking open creates the possibility of becoming. 

The image itself feels almost organic, part flower, part wing, part protective shell, holding tension between fragility and resilience, collapse and emergence. It embodies the moment when dissolution gives way to formation, when something unknown begins to take shape.