All my life I have admired tapestries. Looking at them I think that their creator must have also been a craftsman who spent a lot tirne to manufacture them. What passion you can see in these wool works, what precision and patience it required to create this mosaic of threads and stitches.
     During the Pans Fair l met one day a lost Pole, the artist Józef Jakubczyk. Blue eyes, gentle smile, fair hair like a kid, but the posture and hands like a man; he was just demonstrating how to make a tapestry while weaving flower flakes, evidently playing with colors. With delight I observed how in front of my eyes a piece o fart comes into being. I suddenly desired to buy a tapestry for myself. There was a whole collection and I could not make up my mind which one I should choose. Among all exhibited tapestries each was more beautiful than the other. I left... to come back the next day with a painting by Monet on a postcard and asked, "Could you do this for me?"
     Joseph can make anything; it is enough if the theme evokes some interest and emotion in him; moreover, he likes challenges. Fortunately, this not well know Monet's painting inspired him. As modest as the artist is, he was afraid not to be able to feel the painting and present its landscape, which will be constituted by stitches making the sea and trees, blue and green spaces. Yet we took the risk together; though myself, I never doubted the success of this work. What he created was more than I could ever expected. Look at "Bodigheras"...
     Later I asked him for another tapestry interpretation of a not well known Austrian impressionist' painting called "A Woman on the Promenade", and then there is a famous painting that our French Comedy is very proud of.
     Each time the artist estimated the project as difficult. A few months passed, however, and my wish came true. Joseph Jakubczyk can manufacture miracles: make dreams real, breathes life in them. No doubts! He is a real artist.
     Thus I have three of his tapestries in my collection. How could I express my joy and satisfaction that they give me each day. Imagine walls of a room, with tapestries lighted by sun rays, colorful reflections in them, and pride when I present tapestries to all my friends. Looking at the landscape depicting L' Azure Coast, I dream of relax; some other time I make a conversation with a mysterious woman or I smile at Molier's group.
     Sometimes I imagine I am a part of those masterpieces myself, or at least I make them live in my imagination. I sometimes touch them, feeling elaborated loops and take delight with delicacy of stitches. How sensual the tapestries are! Sometimes I dream about a big house in order to collect Joseph 's works. However, for the time being I am the one who admires them. I hope that everybody who will ever see the artist's work, or simply looking at this album, or visiting his exhibition, will find what real art. is, as well as discover a noble personality and an enormous talent of the artist. It is enough to look at his tapestries: a woman's back, a look of the dog, cascade called An Ice Floe, Last Supper imagined by him, and always flowers, butterflies, landscapes. Ask him for the impossible, and you will believe that he will make your wish come true. He will do it out of love for this art - the art of tapestry.

                               Michele RESSI - author