“There’s the shapeshifter Swan Maiden, Leda and the Swan, swan goddesses Artemis and Aphrodite, the famous ballet Swan Lake of course, and so many other representations...

The Swedish Swan Woman is quite different. 

She lived in squalor in a tiny studio flat in Stockholm, together with eleven swans she had captured and attempted to care for. To herself she was their saviour.

Here she’s a representation of when your inner world collides with the outer.”