SIRENA · Photography · 2020

“Krystyna Krahelska, a student of ethnography at the University of Warsaw, posed for the work on the head and body of the Nitschowa’s Mermaid. She was a cousin of Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, a friend of the sculptor. Nitschowa (she/her) described Krahelska as "a tall, well-built, strong girl with a Slavic, rather Polish type of beauty"

"She accepted the sculptor's proposal, but did not spread this fact among her friends.

She posed for her in a kneeling position, holding a sword in her right hand”