If you look again at “The Threatened Swan”, you will see a very natural phenomenon: a swan defending her eggs. But the swan is also fierce and grand. Filled with passion. Filled with conviction. If it could, the swan would march right into this gallery. For many of us here tonight, the dog in the water is inflation.
For others, it is the energy crisis. The refugee crisis. The climate crisis. The pandemic. An atrocious war on European soil. Each and every one of us, here or elsewhere, each in their own capacity, should step forward, spread their wings wide, and defend, fierce and grand, with passion, with conviction, the eggs of our times.