Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) – The 10,000 km Love Letter

She wears the colour of every sky she has ever crossed: cobalt stolen from Mediterranean dawns, rust kindled over Saharan nights, the pale cream of northern moonlight on her breast. One swallow, one heartbeat, yet inside her tiny body beats the memory of a 10,000-kilometre odyssey: from Cape Town wetlands to this quiet European barn rafter, then back again before the first frost dares to bite.Every spring she returns with the same reckless promise, threading continents on wings no wider than a handspan, guided by stars her ancestors named before humans had words for distance. She is living proof that longing has feathers.

✧ Only 333 signed, numbered migrations will ever be printed.
✧ printed onto Hahnemühle Museum Etching 350 gsm – 100 % cotton that remembers clouds
✧ Archival pigments destined to outlast many journeys
✧ Signed by the artist who listened for her return

Hang her on your wall and feel the warm wind that followed her home.
I am shipping from my studio in Austria.