Nick Willing

And what Hans Christian Andersen is teaching women is not to be materialistic.

But mum thought that was nonsense.

And so she has the expelled princess wearing a giant shawl that's actually a spider, a giant spider she's got on her shoulder.

And that giant spider, of course, is a symbol of creativity.

Spider is also mother because of the web, it's creative.

and she is standing in amongst a herd of pigs.

The story is called The Swine Herd.

Paula, what she has done is she's made the story about the survival of the princess.

Dad and the prince can sod off.

I'm going to be fine.

I have my creativity and my future.

And in a way,

What you're seeing there is a kind of what we now call manifesting, which is if you draw it, it might happen.

There was a sense sometimes with Paula when she was telling me to draw my bullies that their drawing had a kind of magical spell about it that could change the world, your world at least.

It certainly changes the way you think about the world.

So maybe that magic is true in that sense.

But she had a sense, oh, if something was horrible happening to you and you tell her, oh, mom, this terrible thing happened to me today.

She said, oh, let's draw it.

I'm going to draw it for you, darling.

Then she'd give you the drawing.