Robert Jakes (…) Since I have been making large size works in wood myself, I was interested to learn about the sculptures by Sylwester, and I visited him in his Warsaw atelier. The then small interior was inhabited by huge figures of superhuman gods, including all the aspects of this concept. Their size, the strength of their torment, and their extraordinary character, let me rediscover what the sculpture could mean for people of the Medieval Europe, Africa and many other places on the globe where it used to be an integral part of human life, not merely a decorative element of style or narration, but a rough emotion expressing the human condition: something that is easy to talk about but not frequent to occur in the contemporary sculpture.
(Stackpole, Pembroke, March 1993)