The giant trolls guard their ten secret seeds, vital to preserving the forest’s biodiversity for future generations. Explore his world-wide story at Forest Families: Support and Adaptation CMBG’s trolls will join a community that dots the globe from Florida to Chicago, South Korea to China, Denmark to Puerto Rico to Belgium. With a belief that beauty can be found anywhere-especially in unexplored regions of our own backyards-his trolls are always hidden, but the diligent seeker (armed with the correct answer to a given riddle) will soon find them “hidden” in plain sight.ĭambo began this work in 2014 and has since created dozens of trolls now living in parks, green spaces, and woods around the world. Dambo is creating a global village, one troll at a time. This childhood love of “treasure” hunting certainly foreshadowed his now global troll hunts.Ī self-labeled, “recycle art activist,” his trolls are on the list of the most significant attractions in Denmark and can be found worldwide, not only telling a story of sustainability, but one of global connection. As a child, he would scavenge his neighborhood for discarded wood for his projects, carting it home on his bicycle. Since Dambo’s work uses recycled materials, it reinforces the value of using what we have to create something new, while also pulling together people of many skills and backgrounds from throughout our community.īorn in Odense, Denmark, Thomas Dambo lives and works in Copenhagen. Building and creating with wood since the age of five, Dambo has become one of the fastest-growing personalities in the Scandinavian art world. Per Dambo, “The project becomes an open-ended fuse that initiates wonder,” inspiring people to see the natural world through a whimsically different lens. Dambo’s pieces are staggering, and each sculpture simultaneously invites seekers into the depths of our woodlands while telling a story of conservation. Thomas Dambo is considered the world’s leading recycled-materials artist, famous for his troll sculptures.

The Great Story of the Little People & the Giant Trolls Please run, find the seeds, and hold them in your heart,Īnd if everything gets lost, you’ll know where to start. So, the question is now, do you want to help?īecause a secret is lost if kept to itself. Where in secret and safe all the trees could grow tall,īecause a future with no trees is no future at all.

The trolls took them and hid them at the end of a maze, So hard the ground started rumbling and quaking. So hard that stars started flashing and shaking, The five trolls then held around all of the seedsĪnd harder and harder they started to squeeze. Oak, ash, beech, birch, and, last, a little maple. They collected every seed forever and on-Ĭhestnut, cherry, elm, spruce, and hazel, So, in fear of a day when all the trees would be gone, To cut, fell, and break down tree after tree after tree. Little people came plenty, across and over the seas, The forest was ancient, had stood for millions of years,īut recently the trolls had seen just what they had feared. Søren, like branches, would wave in the wind,Īnd Lilja, like the flowers, each year would spring. Gro was like the leaves, breathing life with her lungs. It was told that the trolls spoke the tongue of the treesĪnd had sworn to protect them from war and disease.īirk had roots. Roskva was wide as the trunks. Protecting each part of the forest so old. They were hidden by five giant forest trolls With 10 golden seeds at the end of a maze. Lies a forest of pristine green, forgotten by most. Somewhere between the mountains and the rocky coast

Forgotten fields path behind tree