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This early paste-up by Swoon shows a pensive female figure rendered in her signature hand-cut linework on delicate printed paper. Installed directly on a Kreuzberg wall, the piece belongs to her first generation of “street posters,” which she described as the emergence of her own artistic voice. In a later reflection, Swoon explained that these works taught her about **creation through destruction**: most of them disappeared quickly, forcing her to keep producing and evolving. “Street posters were the first emergence of my own voice,” she wrote, “and they helped me immensely to develop it, because they contained the gift of destruction — almost everything I made got destroyed, and so I had to just keep making and making.” Now heavily weathered, *Fading Grace* stands as both a visual and symbolic reminder of that philosophy — the beauty of impermanence and the strength found in repetition, failure, and rediscovery.