In this artwork, Swinburn has selected names of emblematic women from Christine de Pizan’s ‘The Book of the City of Ladies’ and engraved them as titles into the books of her fictional library, ‘Revolutionary Myths’ (2023).

This woven investiture differs from the rest of Swinburn's oeuvre, as for the first time, the artist has worked with the leather of the book spine as opposed to its paper contents; creating an image of a dismantled library of page-less books, which acts as a metaphor for the missing narratives of women in history. Through the process of deconstructing books and reweaving this material into an artwork, Swinburn recycles the past into present to create a newly woven narrative, a mythological cloak in appreciation of the revolutionary myths of women throughout history.

Functioning as both garment and artwork; when worn, it yields the power to create sacred space for inner transformation, and when placed as an artwork in the sanctuary of the chapel, it instils a divine female presence into the place of worship, historically void of feminine energy.