tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32260744317662910302024-03-13T02:06:12.192+01:00The Textile Cuisinetextile art by Bozena WojtaszekBozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.comBlogger367125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-16901076149455081482023-08-11T16:48:00.006+02:002023-08-16T08:02:46.608+02:00The hen in troubles<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCCqgJuoPFydfj1w0m6xLlMGuT4hD-ZjjDrLIBSIs76OGcuORnHhNugI94GCCHmXQTCH_TI4Mmyb3FfOAtOq2udSUQD6g2b024FH_LYhOkeGAIMiz4nnj64cxVVy6wnPxwLI8xWikLegLQvPcrZxYLie2Ha7YMXUXMIZGv06b_jImNZSd3Bp2pOupkNiD/s1500/hen_in_troubles7_textile_art_bozena_wojtaszek.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCCqgJuoPFydfj1w0m6xLlMGuT4hD-ZjjDrLIBSIs76OGcuORnHhNugI94GCCHmXQTCH_TI4Mmyb3FfOAtOq2udSUQD6g2b024FH_LYhOkeGAIMiz4nnj64cxVVy6wnPxwLI8xWikLegLQvPcrZxYLie2Ha7YMXUXMIZGv06b_jImNZSd3Bp2pOupkNiD/s600/hen_in_troubles7_textile_art_bozena_wojtaszek.JPG"/></a></div>
Sometimes things are simply overwhelming... I can only guess that keeping balance for this little hen is quite a challenge. But she keeps her face straight.
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The amount of dishes is truly impressive.
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To dive or not to dive?
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Maybe just looking will do the job?
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But the water seems so joyful and friendly...
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So maybe, just maybe, all the troubles will turn out to be manageable? Courage, little hen!
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With the sun going higher and the days getting longer gotta look for the signs of spring in the kitchen.
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Little birds say that "Spring is coming to the kitchen" is my newest kitchen portrait in stitches. It is 46 x 57 cm big and contains all kinds of spring surprises.
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Fresh milk and eggs with the promise of new life accompanied by colorful morning chorus.
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Clean plates are blooming and fresh water brings much needed vital energy.
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First greens appear everywhere
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slowly taking the kitchen space of.
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Even the old wooden floor can't resist
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as if trying to connect with sweet blooming memories...
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So good to see you back, dear Spring! Make yourself at home and stay as long as you wish.Bozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-14940625747413327882022-02-07T22:21:00.005+01:002022-02-08T22:59:35.400+01:00Dancing on many weddings<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMvQtEtnW4vWQcwyMvRV7X5HuYHbnD82r7lyzDP1ZgZvbYAD_-lrpNg0DAeOMarAOuIBq6QDSEFfqzUGRcDjVkX9dFY_co-hVRtWCkU5q3_-vomxPDjRxzh1DlwL47vJTvO_MBfog5gGc9TqGvkPxEX7Sdcks95ry6YfCQm4VFYlP-7zz60IXOxS2-5A=s4288" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="4288" data-original-width="3856" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMvQtEtnW4vWQcwyMvRV7X5HuYHbnD82r7lyzDP1ZgZvbYAD_-lrpNg0DAeOMarAOuIBq6QDSEFfqzUGRcDjVkX9dFY_co-hVRtWCkU5q3_-vomxPDjRxzh1DlwL47vJTvO_MBfog5gGc9TqGvkPxEX7Sdcks95ry6YfCQm4VFYlP-7zz60IXOxS2-5A=s600"/></a></div>
Ever wondered what the restaurant's backstage at wedding party looks like? I did. So here is my textile vision of such a place.
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Many tasteful dishes impatiently waiting for their turn, all dressed appropriately and a bit excited.
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The pans could easily recognize it is a wedding time by the special lighting turned on.
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Big chandelier spreads the golden light on everything for the bright prospect of newly-wed's life.
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Even the floor keeps tidy, arranging accidental rubbish into lace patterns...
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Let's not forget the wedding cake!
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I know it is just my fantasy and reality may be less charming. But... my art is to inspire and to beautify. So imagine my incredible joy when for my birthday this year I got this:
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With all the edible details instead of glass beads.
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"Dancing on many weddings" is 20.5 x 21.5 in, ready to hang on the wall. And the real cake? Well, I don't remember the size because it didn't last long enough!
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Here is my newest textile work with a cooking theme. I finished it some months earlier but much to my surprise I had to revisit it and make some changes.
The idea came from an older piece where I visualized the beginning of spring as a big pot boiling with first blooms.
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"Summer cooking" was made in the summer and I thought it was done although it looked differently from what you see now.
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I liked it and the response from viewers was great but it dawned on me that people see something different from what I wanted to show. At first it didn't bother me (everything in the eye of beholder of course) but finally I decided to give it another try. Long, autumnal evenings came handy for adding more embroidery stitches here and there.
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The whole piece remains the same but the small additions make the difference.
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The sun got some new golden touches too:
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And the blue leaves appeared:
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Now you can compare both versions yourself. Hope you prefer "after" than "before" but if not - sorry, it is the final one.
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Another Hildegard's from Bingen vision made in stitches. This is the biggest one (so far) - 65 cm in diameter. Don't know about you, but for me there's definitely the calming effect of looking at her 12th century model of the world and realising it is pretty much the same as today.
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As long as the earth revolves it is all same old. It is not clear what is in the centre because it keeps changing through the centuries but it doesn't matter that much. If I was asked for the one thing that could make our life better it would be respect. And I mean it in the broad sense - respect for life, nature, our planet as well as respect for yourself and the others. Respect for the past and respect for the future. We are guests here and there's enough space for all of us. We don't have to like each other, we don't have to like animals or plants. It is enough to give them some respect - let them live their lives and remember we are nothing more or less.
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Hope that with a bit of respect this beautiful planet will keep running for the next centuries.
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The name of cauliflower comes from Italian "cavolfiore" which means "cabbage flower"(and this comes from Latin caulis - cabbage and flos - flower). In Polish "kalafior" we don't see neither cabbage or flower but at least it sounds great. And the fresh white colour of the first cauliflowers really adds sparkle to the veggies stalls. Do you remember my "Green market" (it is <a href="https://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2010/10/market-complete-rynek-skonczony.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>)?
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Personally I love the taste of cauliflowers but I also find their interesting shape inspirational. Last year it was used in many forms. Ever seen "Cauliflower tree":
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And you may remember fermented cauliflower I presented here some posts ago (<a href="https://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2021/04/spring-vibes-in-kitchen.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>):
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It was also my role model for Medieval initial "C":
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This year I decided to focus on the head of this white and edible flower:
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And I saw it as a big jewel:
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What will be next?Bozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-40553578621078157542021-06-24T10:08:00.000+02:002021-06-24T10:08:08.873+02:00My Italian kitchen<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YGCH3-JfHnw/YNQ13Ft_K7I/AAAAAAAAR60/-ZgllD6yklMmOmAo_gyuTqLaPzqreyz7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/my_italian_kitchen_68x59_bozena_wojtaszek_full.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1732" data-original-width="2000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YGCH3-JfHnw/YNQ13Ft_K7I/AAAAAAAAR60/-ZgllD6yklMmOmAo_gyuTqLaPzqreyz7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/my_italian_kitchen_68x59_bozena_wojtaszek_full.jpg"/></a></div>
Not the newest of my kitchens but the one that took the longest to complete for sure! It started in 2015 (<a href="https://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2015/09/raspberry-hills-malinowe-wzgorza.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>)and was meant to be done fast. Oh well...
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Yes, it was the amount of handwork involved that took so long. And I don't mean stitching daily for all those years but rather the breaks much needed after stitching every utensil by hand.
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Landscape in the background was like a fresh breeze - open space with spots of greenery here and there.
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And I learned a lot along the way. Not so about the stitching but definitely about history and cooking the Italian way. I love to read on the subject of my project in progress. It is like building an environment, accumulating all the facts and feelings to transform them later into stitches. Then the magic happens - you see the picture that evokes emotions and you are able to feel the atmosphere by yourself. Welcome to my world of Italian cuisine!
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Here is more of my works for our small group of textile artists "15 x 15" (see the previous work in this series <a href="https://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2021/03/bread-and-bird.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>). After the essence of the French landscape the time has come to create something in the style of the artist from this country.
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The very first thing coming to mind were still lives with food by Paul Cezanne. So I went for him.
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Stitching like Cezanne wasn't that easy but it was fun anyway.
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"Cheese and pears" - textile art in the post impressionist manner.
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Bon appetit!
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Some years ago I read an essay by Olga Tokarczuk on her relationship with trees. She was dreaming about the machine that would be able to recreate stories witnessed by old trees through their life. I immediately "saw" this kind of gramophone and the songs it could play. The many different small worlds rising and falling around the same tree for 200 or 600 years.
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It was fun to create all the variety of small landscapes, with little details here and there.
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I love to create landscapes in small formats and they are always more about emotions than the real views. Here are the most recent ones - "Golden fields"
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This one is framed and available <a href="https://ko-fi.com/bozenawojtaszek/shop" target="_blank">HERE</a>.
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And "Beyond my garden" - ready to frame, heavy embroidered beauty in tones of pink.
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The longer I live the more cycles of life are clear to me. And I find them very uplifting, especially when things look bad at the moment. It is like, you know, watching bare trees in winter with the awarness of spring coming sooner or later.
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So who is surprised that playing with a new circle of trees inspired by Hildegard's von Bingen vision will be the best choice for some mindful and meditative artwork? Not me.
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Working on this piece connects so many elements and ties them all in a wholeness, just like mandala. Of course the most mysterious and intriguing is the centre:
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But each seson has its reason too. And the small pleasures it brings.
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Earlier this year I made a smaller and slightly different version of the same subject:
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The change of seasons is less visible but I guess I was so desperately looking for green trees that I had to stitch some at least. It is interesting to look through the archives and compare all my Hildegard's visions done so far:
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And I'm pretty sure that more will follow!
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If you remember the colors of my fermented veggies from the previous post <a href="https://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2021/04/spring-vibes-in-kitchen.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> you are not surprised by this:
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Frankly speaking, I started in small size - from coasters.
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They gave me this idea of bigger, simple, minimalist flowers for wall decor. And what started from a rose continued in... purple pansy:
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The next was daisy:
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They are fun to create. The longest part is design but when it is done the rest is just "pedal to the metal".
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Of course all the fraying is intentional and secure. All the flowers are in similar size (approx. 15in in diameter) and available in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BozenaWojtaszek?ref=seller-platform-mcnav" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a>. And that's how they look together:
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Bright and beautiful textile flower power. It might not be the end because...
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some tasteful, edible yellow roses came my way. Oh well, this inspiration stream has no end :)Bozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-70288869929712266102021-04-21T19:00:00.002+02:002022-02-08T23:01:51.474+01:00Spring vibes in the kitchen<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O03_Ul-iiPg/YIBRKLt2uSI/AAAAAAAARxY/4RdZUgcw4EIEAG5L2W3FI0Fn1laMbIg2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/cupboard1_bozena_wojtaszek.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O03_Ul-iiPg/YIBRKLt2uSI/AAAAAAAARxY/4RdZUgcw4EIEAG5L2W3FI0Fn1laMbIg2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/cupboard1_bozena_wojtaszek.jpg"/></a></div>
This year spring is playing cat and mouse with us. So instead of fresh greens and young sprouts I'm sticking to fermented veggies. Deep red tones keep me warm on the wintry April's days.
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They inspire new stitched projects too but before they come to life take a look at the last summer's stitched veggies mix:
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Can you recognize my favorite ingredients?
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Cauliflower and carrots with a lot of salt.
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Oh, and a dill which is the key factor in my ferments!
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Broccoli brings this lovely dark green spots.
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And radishes for joyful pink tones.
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Kohlrabi, spices and... the magic of fermentation does the rest. Then it is just to find the way how to translate all the movement into stitches. But that's the fun part as much as eating the models with a big pleasure :)
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For the past few months I was stitching plants. All kinds of imagined plants in many shapes and sizes.
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I'm fascinated by medieval tapestries, the natural world depicted in them on a very detailed and complex way.
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At that time they were the most expensive pieces of art considering the high quality of raw materials used and a very long and difficult production process. They were called "mobile frescos of North" and decorated walls of the noble interiors.
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Of course I don't want to copy medieval tapestries but studying them makes me eager to create complex worlds filled with intricate details, pulling viewer through the layers and textures just to amaze them and bring joy of unexpected discoveries.
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It's not fashionable nowadays to spend hours on this kind of time consuming work, but who cares?
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At least it is the time well spent and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who appreciate this kind of work. Wanna see some process pictures? Enjoy!
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Feeling like a "Good wife" (pictured above) presenting her clean and tidy kingdom. Well, not all my kitchens are clean and tidy. Some are seriously touched by decay, like this "Abandoned kitchen":
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I'm not sure if birds are a good addition to the place where we cook but... licentia poetica works in textile art too.
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They say that kitchen is the heart of a home. I agree but I also love to see them as spaces with their own personalities. Sometimes bright and cheerful:
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Sometimes more dramatic:
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I can see late night shows going in the kitchen while the rest of house sleeps:
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And we love it when the cooking is like music, don't we?
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The most recent kitchen you saw in the previous <a href="https://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2021/03/fine-dining-in-fishermans-kitchen.html" target="_blank">POST</a> but I want to show you the one that took the longest to complete - "My Italian kitchen" (started <a href="https://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2015/09/raspberry-hills-malinowe-wzgorza.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>):
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The pile of ideas for more is growing up. Captured this recently and I can see a magic city with lots of pinnacles... in the kitchen, of course!
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Fancy a fish dish? You're welcome:
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The idea for fisherman's kitchen portrait arose long ago. It was percolating slowly on the back burner and now the time has come to express it in fabrics. I wanted it rather dark, in tones of browns and blues. Hand dyed antique linen and lace (aka fishing net) were the starting point setting the mood for the whole piece.
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Smoked fish and the basket of fishes were the obvious choices as well as the big pot with fish soup. I wasn't sure what window view I want but the scraps just lined up for the big sky and the sea.
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So what to put on the table?
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At first I wanted simple silver plates but the addition of fishes turned it into splendind feast.
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That's how we ended up on the fine dining in this humble fisherman's kitchen.
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I love making kitchen portraits. In the next post will show you more of them, the ones created through the time I was absent here. But of course I had to share my newest baby first, right? Bon appetit!
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Last summer I went crazy with fermenting veggies. It wasn't my first attempt to it but this time I started looking at them along the process. I like to try different combinations both for taste and... for the color.
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So the ideas for new textile works started to pop up.
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Yes, watching fermenting radish, zucchini and garlic made me to create roses. My main focus was on the background - hand dyed it myself to repeat this smokey rose hue.
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But wait, roses come in all colors, don't they?
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Yellow pepper, radish and turnip resulted in another roses' idea - this time "Colorful rose garden" was born.
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Both of these wall hangings are available for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BozenaWojtaszek?ref=seller-platform-mcnav" target="_blank">HERE</a>, as I'm sure that more will follow.
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Actually I already have an idea for another rosy piece but this time it will be slightly different.
Of course you don't think that my ferments are only for artistic inspiration, right? I really eat them in big quantities. And I make them all year round.
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Bozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-57392088991417492822021-03-08T15:46:00.001+01:002022-02-08T23:03:06.707+01:00Bread and bird<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nih14xTzgAA/YEYqNyZc51I/AAAAAAAARqQ/RSTpVHzOt3o7xCQXl0NKq-y3F03PPeJdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/France_emblem_bozena_wojtaszek.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nih14xTzgAA/YEYqNyZc51I/AAAAAAAARqQ/RSTpVHzOt3o7xCQXl0NKq-y3F03PPeJdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/France_emblem_bozena_wojtaszek.jpg"/></a></div>
As some of you know I'm a member of a small group of textile artists "15 x 15" (see us <a href="https://fifteenquilts.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a>). Every two months we create a piece of textile artwork on a theme. For this year we had to choose a country we want to explore through the year in our art. The first theme was "Emblem". So what is more emblematic for France, the country of my choice, than baguette...
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... and cockerel!
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Back in Ancient history Romans were laughing at Gauls because of a linguistic coincidence – in Latin, the word gallus means Gaul… but also rooster! Later on the French kings adopted the rooster as a symbol of courage and bravery.
And I have a thing with roosters. You may remember my "Rooster on blue" (posted <a href="https://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2016/10/rooster-on-blue-for-change-kogut-dla.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>) so let me introduce to you the brand new "Rooster in black".
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What's so special in roosters? Well, visually they are very impressive, aren't they?
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But if you dig dipper in folklore they are also very positive symbolism - sensitive to daylight makes them an early risers and we rise with them.
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Connected to the sun and dawn they bring hope that the night has passed and there is a new, beautiful day awaiting us.
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As a morning bird myself I like this feeling of pride and courage as a starting point of the day :)
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Hello! After lots of changes and tribulations I'm back in my old saddle. Not sure if anybody is still here but I hope you come back to see what am I up to.
This little bun I'm serving for visitors comes from my most recent "Fly me to the moon" textile creation.
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Living with a bread maker transports you to the cozy galaxy of the warmth, smell and all kinds of heavenly tastes.
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So I couldn't resist and had to transform all my feelings on a theme into fabrics and stitches.
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How close my work stands to original models? Judge by yourself. Bon appetit!
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The time has come to make some move - with all the internet changes, new opportunities and new directions my art is evolving, it seems the good idea to move into a new place. I will keep blogging on my website - <a href="http://bozenawojtaszek.com/"><b>bozenawojtaszek.com</b></a><br />
On daily basis we can meet on instagram, just follow <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bozena_wojtaszek/" target="_blank">@bozena_wojtaszek</a></b><br />
And to get more insight views on my art process, inspirations and developments subscribe to my <b><a href="http://eepurl.com/c4dDaf" target="_blank">NEWSLETTER</a></b>!<br />
See you on the new patches!<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Czas na zmianę - wszystko się zmienia to i ja coś zmienię :) Przenoszę się z blogowaniem na moją stronę - <a href="http://www.bozenawojtaszek.com/"><b>www.bozenawojtaszek.com</b></a>.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>A na co dzień można mnie spotkać na instagramie, <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bozena_wojtaszek/" target="_blank">@bozena_wojtaszek</a></b>.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>No i jeszcze coś dla bardzo ciekawych tajników mojego procesu twórczego, inspiracji i rozwoju - <b><a href="http://eepurl.com/c4dDaf" target="_blank">NEWSLETTER</a></b>!</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Do zobaczenia na nowych ścieżkach!</i></span>Bozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-50492873569429635802017-06-27T16:11:00.000+02:002017-06-27T16:11:51.588+02:00Botanical garden in a scale / Mały ogród botaniczny<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello again after a long break! Well, I'm still working but mostly on secret projects and little or nothing to show. But now it's different - I finished this little jewel and have to share it with you immediately. The story of this "Botanical garden" started one year ago. Just after coming back from "Ziołowy Zakątek" - botanical herbal garden mentioned here many times.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Witam po nieoczekiwanej przerwie! Tak to, niestety jest, gdy się pracuje nad rzeczami nie-do-pokazania-na-razie, nie ma o czym pisać :) Ale dzisiaj jest - skończyłam taki drobiazg i muszę go Wam pokazać natychmiast. Idea tego "Ogrodu botanicznego" narodziła się rok temu. Zaraz po powrocie z prawdziwego ogrodu w Zielonym Zakątku.</i></span><br />
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I knew and told you that the beauty and meaning of this garden made a huge impact on me. And the idea of embroidering small botanical garden went live immediately after the return.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Wiedziałam i mówiałam Wam, że urok tego ogrodu wywarł na mnie duży wpływ. Od razu postanowiłam uchwycić i zatrzymać go w tkaninie.</i></span><br />
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Yes, that's how I put many different patches for a background. And over dyed them with green. I wanted to capture all the diversity of plants which makes this place almost overwhelming but in a very good sense - you can literally dive there into herbs and plants of many species. And I didn't want to embroider every single one of them :)<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Tak, taki był początek - różne kolorowe skrawki zszyte w "rabatki" i ufarbowane na zielono. Trochę tak, jak w tym prawdziwym ogrodzie - wielka rozmaitość gatunków wzajemnie się przenikająca i uzupełniająca, bioróżnorodność w pełnym tego słowa znaczeniu. A ja oczywiście nie chciałam haftować tego mnóstwa gatunków, chciałam tylko oddać atmosferę tego magicznego miejsca.</i></span><br />
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I also didn't want to depict any particular species - it was all about the feelings. That's why I wanted to embroider and quilt it by hand. So when I wanted to bring back this relaxing feeling of being in a real garden, I simply opened "Garden of Eden" (one of my botanical bibles), choose the plant and place for it and let my fingers play.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Nie miałam tu również żadnych ulubionych roślin do przedstawienia - chodziło o takie ogólne, roślinne emocje. Dlatego chciałam to szyć ręcznie. I wyglądało to tak, że jak miałam nastrój na zanurzenie się w takim zielonym oceanie spokoju, znajdowałam sobie roślinkę w "Garden of Eden", szukałam dla niej odpowiedniego miejsca i pozwalałam palcom działać.</i></span><br />
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You see what I mean? Very meditative process it was.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Widzicie? Bardzo medytacyjne zajęcie. </i></span><br />
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And oh, so joyful :) But it took one year to complete it (despite its small size - 13 x 17). You really need this special inner pace to work on something like this. No matter your skills (I'm rather fast and skilled, I guess), it is a slow process. There are thousands decisions you make along the way, every stitch has a meaning. You don't paint by numbers, you paint as you go.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Czysta radość. Ale roku potrzebowałam, żeby to skończyć (pomimo skromnego rozmiaru - 33 x 43 cm). No ale potrzeba do tego wyjątkowego spokoju umysłu i koncentracji. Nie jest to kwestia umiejętności technicznych (szyć raczej umiem i to szybko!), tu ciężko przyspieszyć. Każdy ścieg ma znaczenie, kolor nitki, kierunek, trzeba po prostu wolniutko płynąć i nie rozglądać się na boki. Jest tylko plan ogólny, a każdy następny krok wynika z poprzedniego.</i></span><br />
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Just take a side look:<br />
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Nice texture, isn't it? I decided to "frame" it with delicate silk fabric to keep the central part standing out. And I didn't have to choose the binding. Because the binding just came out of the blue - last week I received this lovely decorative tape from a close friend who had no idea about this project. Yes, it is this small dose of magic which just happens :)<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Całość obramowałam cienkim jedwabiem, a lamówki nawet nie musiałam wybierać - sama do mnie przyszła. Tydzień temu dostałam taką pamiątkę z wakacji od przyjaciółki, która o tym projekcie nie miała zielonego (a jakże!) pojęcia. Tak, to taka odrobina magii, kiedy zagadki same się zgadują :) </i></span><br />
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And I know that it is not fashionable nowadays to create pieces like this. It doesn't pay off. Fortunately I'm an old school - it doesn't pay off but it is worth to :) And now I will shut up and let you dive into more details, please enjoy!<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>I oczywiście zdaję sobie sprawę, że tego typu projekty nie są teraz modne, bo nie są opłacalne. Na szczęście jestem staromodna i zgadzam się z klasykiem - nie opłaca się, ale warto. A teraz już się zamykam i dorzucam jeszcze kilka obrazków :) </i></span><br />
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<br />Bozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-14069318202287393422017-04-13T22:21:00.001+02:002017-05-10T13:26:43.727+02:00New flock of birds / Nowe stado ptaków<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You may remember the birdhouse art quilt I made some time ago (it is <a href="http://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2015/02/birds-of-feather-flock-together-moje.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>). Now I wanted to play with the same idea and to work on some variations. So here is the brand new "Birdhouse in blue":<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Może pamiętacie domek dla ptaków, który uszyłam jakiś czas temu (jest <a href="http://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/2015/02/birds-of-feather-flock-together-moje.html" target="_blank"><b>TUTAJ</b></a>). Teraz wróciłam do tego pomysłu i spróbowałam innych wariantów. No i mamy "Birdhouse in blue": </i></span><br />
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But wait, there is another one - in beige:<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ale to nie koniec, jeszcze jest w beżu: </i></span><br />
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Both of the pieces are small, with fewer birds, different but coming from the same background.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Obydwa są małe, z kilkoma tylko ptaszkami, zupełnie inne w klimacie ale wyrosły na tej samej bazie. </i></span><br />
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And here they are hanging together:<br />
<i><span style="color: #666666;">A tak wiszą sobie razem:</span> </i><br />
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While playing with the birds I realized that I kept singing to myself old song of The Queen "Spread your little wings and fly away...". I changed the focus and opened the cage :)<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>W trakcie szycia przyłapałam się na nuceniu starej piosenki The Queen "Spread your little wings and fly away...". Natchnęło mnie to do zmiany optyki i otwarcia klatki :)</i></span><br />
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Just one bird. Still in doubts but tempted to fly :)<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Tylko jeden ptaszek. Pełen wątpliwości, ale wszystko kusi, żeby polecieć :)</i></span><br />
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Fly high all! And... have a Happy Easter!<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Wysokich lotów wszystkim! I... Wesołych Świąt!</i></span><br />
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My latest dragon comes not from my mind but from Polish folklore. You see that he isn't that nice and friendly as his former colleagues.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Mój najnowszy smok nie pochodzi z mojej głowy ale wprost z naszego folkloru i to z wysokiej półki. Nie jest jednak taki przyjacielski jak jego poprzednicy.</i></span><br />
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In fact he is fighting with St George.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Walczy - ze św. Jerzym</i></span>.<br />
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And I didn't invent him, I used a template, but what a template it is!<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Nie wymyśliłam go, użyłam szablonu, ale jakiego! </i></span><br />
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The model dragon is painted on the wall of a little Medieval church in a small mountain village Dębno. The church is on the heritage list because of the well preserved original medieval wall polychromy. I have never been there but... received this wonderful gift::<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ten smok pochodzi ze słynnego średniowiecznego kościółka w Dębnie. Sama tam nie byłam, ale dostałam fantastyczny prezent na jego temat: </i></span><br />
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It is a very well done documentation (with iconography!) of this church written and drawn by our famous folklorist Stanisław Barabasz (I've got some more of his works about folk art in the mountain area). That's where I learned the detailed story of the church and its decorations. And when I read about anonymous painters who wandered in 15th century from village to village with their templates, looking for a wall to decorate and when I found a dragon in those templates I had to recreate it in textile.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>To jedna z wielu teczek Stanisława Barabasza, badacza i dokumentalisty podhalańskiej sztuki ludowej, w całości poświęcona temu kościołowi. I gdy tylko przeczytałam o XV-wiecznych bezimiennych malarzach, którzy chodzili ze swoimi szablonami od wsi do wsi w poszukiwaniu miejsc do udekorowania i w dodatku zobaczyłam szablon smoka - musiałam uszyć swoją tkaninową wersję.</i></span><br />
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It is wooden church and the colors of the painted walls are still vivid. That's why I decided to place my dragon in rich and colorful setting.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Kościół jest drewniany, a polichromie wciąż żywe, więc i ja umieściłam smoczysko na kolorowej scenie. </i></span><br />
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If you want to see some process picture, please visit the other blog of mine <a href="https://niume.com/post/258638" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>.<br />
And I'm going back to my more peaceful fantasy dragons.<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Po więcej zdjęć z procesu szycia zapraszam do drugiego blogu <a href="https://niume.com/post/258638" target="_blank"><b>TUTAJ</b></a> (niestety tylko po angielsku).</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>A ja wracam do moich mniej walecznych smoków lubiących kwiatki.</i></span>Bozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-4101078870748056142017-01-26T19:41:00.001+01:002017-01-26T19:41:35.330+01:00Fire dragon / Smok ognisty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It looks that I'm totally into dragons now. This one comes with fire (the inner fire, of course). In Poland we have our famous dragon from Cracow (Wawel Dragon) and mine borrowed the setting from it:<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Smoki mnie wciągnęły. Ten przyszedł z oniem (wewnętrznym ogniem, oczywiście). Lokalizację pożyczył od Wawelskiego: </i></span><br />
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He lives in the mountain with a castle on top but he doesn't eat sheep and loves flowers:)<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Mieszka w górze z zamkiem na szczycie, ale nie je owiec i uwielbia kwiaty :) </i></span><br />
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Many flowers, one would say :)<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Można powiedzieć, że nawet dużo kwiatów :)</i></span> <br />
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If you wonder about the relation between these two dragons, don't worry - they are friends!<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>A jeśli zastanawiacie się, jaki stosunek mają moje smoki do siebie, bez obaw - łączy ich przyjaźń! </i></span><br />
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<br />Bozena Wojtaszekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16013779852089434114noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226074431766291030.post-1403493559880083422017-01-12T14:44:00.001+01:002017-01-12T15:02:16.679+01:00Where the dragon sleeps / Gdzie smok śpi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome to the New Year and to my new work. I told you in the previous post that I'm bad with resolutions and prefer to go with the flow. Little did I know where this will take me right from the beginning of a year.<br />
It started innocently with a picture:<br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Witam w Nowym Roku i z nową pracą. Mówiłam ostatnio, że nie jestem dobra w postanowieniach i raczej będę płynąć z prądem. Ale nie miałam pojęcia dokąd może mnie on zaprowadzići to od razu na wstępie nowego roku. A zaczęło się niewinnie, od zdjęcia: </i></span><br />
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<i>photo by <a href="https://500px.com/hemmings" target="_blank">Luke Hemmings</a></i></div>
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<i> </i>I was exposed to this picture by my friend, poet and writer <a href="http://louishemmings.com/" target="_blank"><b>Louis Hemmings</b></a> who knows my interests quite well. The picture was taken by his son <a href="https://500px.com/hemmings" target="_blank"><b>Luke</b></a> and, as you may guessed, I loved it from the first sight. </div>
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Coincidentally it has happened that I was reminded of a well known Medieval embroidered dragon:</div>
<span style="color: #666666;"><i> Pokazał mi je przyjaciel, irlandzki pisarz i poeta <a href="http://louishemmings.com/" target="_blank"><b>Louis Hemmings</b></a>, który dobrze wie, co mnie może zainteresować. Zdjęcie zrobił jego syn, <a href="https://500px.com/hemmings" target="_blank"><b>Luke</b></a> i, jak się zapewne domyślacie, pokochałam je od pierwszego wejrzenia.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Krótko po tym, przypomniał mi się pewien całkiem sławny, średniowieczny, haftowany smok:</i></span><br />
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And suddenly I knew where this dragon sleeps!</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>I od razu wiedziałam gdzie ten smok śpi! </i></span></div>
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It is very friendly and peaceful dragon and I'm very happy that I found a forest for him.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Oczywiście jest bardzo łagodny i przyjacielski, dlatego cieszę się, że znalazłam mu taki fajny las do spania. </i></span></div>
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While stitching all the details I thought a lot about the meanders of creativity and the sources of inspirations.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Podczas misternej dłubaniny sporo rozmyślałam o niezbadanych ścieżkach twórczości i źródeł inspiracji. </i></span></div>
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But it wasn't until I was ready to write this post when I realized, that there's another possible influential factor which made an impact on me during the process - take a look at the January flower from the art calendar 2017 drawn and painted by my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/paperinmybackpack/" target="_blank"><b>talented daughter</b></a>:</div>
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<i>Ale dopiero gdy byłam gotowa do napisania tego postu, uświadomiłam sobie, że jest chyba jeszcze jeden czynnik, który na mnie wpłynął - zobaczcie kwiatka ze styczniowej kartki kalendarza tradycyjnie wyprodukowanego przez moją <a href="https://www.instagram.com/paperinmybackpack/" target="_blank"><b>zdolną córeczkę</b></a>:</i></div>
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It is a dangerous thing to be surrounded by creative individuals - you never know where they will take you consciously or not. But what a beautiful ride it is! Thank you Louis, Luke and Olcha, my dragon wouldn't come to life without you :)</div>
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<i>Niebezpieczna sprawa takie codzienne obcowanie z artystami - nigdy nie wiadomo dokąd cię poniosą, świadomie czy nie. Ale jaka to cudowna podróż! Dzięki Louis, Luke i Olcho, bez Was mój smok nigdy by się nie urodził :)</i></div>
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Here is my 2016 in a glimpse - not all the works I created but the ones most important. It was a tough year and I'm really happy it comes to an end. But no resolutions for the new one. They don't work on me and I'm not even good in planning. It's much better to take it bite by bite as it comes. <br />
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2017 in Chinese calendar will be the Year of the Rooster. You know that I love roosters - here is one of them wishing you<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Tak wygląda mój 2016 w pigułce - nie wszystkie prace, ale te najważniejsze. Rok był trudny i cieszę się, że zbliża się do końca. Ale żadnych postanowień na nowy. One u mnie nie działają, a w planowaniu nie jestem za mocna. Będę sobie po prostu przez niego szła krok po kroczku.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Według chińskiego kalendarza 2017 będzie Rokiem Koguta. Wiecie, że lubię koguty - tu jeden z nich życzy Wam</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Szczęśliwego Nowego 2017 Roku!</b></span></div>
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