{"id":17863,"date":"2021-07-12T11:16:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T09:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/2021\/07\/12\/the-conquest-of-mars-or-taken-from-real-life\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:11:07","slug":"the-conquest-of-mars-or-taken-from-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/en\/2021\/07\/12\/the-conquest-of-mars-or-taken-from-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInvasion of Mars\u201d \u2013 story taken from real life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi, it\u2019s me again, Sylwia 2. The sewing studio of the host of this blog is still under renovation, so Sylwia 1 is not in a happy place right now. I understand her feelings completely because a sewing studio is like a chest full of treasures. Unfortunately for Sylwia 1, some bad people showed up, slammed the lid on her chest, and hid the key. Awfully bad people.So, I\u2019ll take this opportunity to add my story about Sylwia\u2019s 1 quilt \u201cInvasion of Mars,\u201d which she sewed in 2017 and publicly displayed it at the exhibition in Boleslawiec in 2018 link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, I accidently stumbled on an article about this exhibition and, while looking through photos of all the beautiful works on display, a certain piece caught my eye. I was enchanted for weeks, I kept admiring it every night, running my fingers on the screen, enlarging the image back and forth, and admiring the precision of workmanship, colors, and the beautiful technique. At that time, I did not pay attention to the name of the artist responsible for it, simply because I am terrible at remembering names. My imagination pushed me into a stereotype: I imagined a very gifted artist to whom heaven had been kind to. In my mind, I saw a person visibly standing out from the crowd, simply for their extravagant way of being, which is so often a characteristic of artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time passed, my life and my sewing went by at its own pace, up to the moment in 2019 when I managed to discover Fablab in Krakow, where I met a group of women as insane about quilting as I am. As I was new and a beginner in the craft, I didn\u2019t know anyone. I stood in the corner listening to other people conversations where the main topics were, of course, quilts, fabrics, threads etc. I thought to myself: what a relief, I found just the right place at the right time. The hostess of the meeting at the time, Ewa Pasinska, announced to everyone: \u201cWell, girls, show us your quilts.\u201d One woman stepped out from among the other people gathered there, a tiny, petite sized girl with a beautiful smile on her face, so beautifully ordinary and stood in the center of the room. She began to take her beautiful quilts out of a cardboard box. She stopped and said a few words about each piece as she took them out with such a modesty, as if the execution of these pieces of art came so naturally to her.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the moment came. From that plain cardboard box, she pulled out a piece I actually recognized, a piece I had fallen in love with and spent so many nights admiring every single detail, she pulled out \u201cInvasion of Mars.\u201d I was stunned. I was shocked. It was then that I understood that wise saying that iffate closes one door for you, it will open another one. So, I walked into that open door, and you know the rest of the story. It turned out that open door led me to the most beautiful adventure of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hi, it\u2019s me again, Sylwia 2. The sewing studio of the host of this blog is still under renovation, so Sylwia 1 is not in a happy place right now. I understand her feelings completely because a sewing studio is like a chest full of treasures. Unfortunately for Sylwia 1, some bad people showed up, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,2125,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-en","category-artquilts-en","category-sylwia-ii-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20391,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863\/revisions\/20391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}