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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 female representations...

The Swedish Swan Woman is quite different. She lived in squalor in a tiny studio flat in Stockholm, together with the eleven swans that she had captured and attempted to care for. To herself she was their saviour and to them their tormentor. Here she’s a representation of when your inner world collides with the outer.

Originally drawn by pen on paper, by Ella Moe 2020.