Thomas Dambo's magical troll art
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2024
- The Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo uses reclaimed wood and scraps from landfills to create giant works of art depicting trolls - magical creatures that he has installed in 17 countries. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with Dambo about his creation depicting Oscar the Bird King, hidden in the woods of Vashon Island near Seattle, and how his sculptures blend in with the natural world.
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Artist Thomas Dambo is brilliant bringing the magic of trolls around the world!
We are so lucky to have some of these wonderful trolli here in Kentucky at Bernhiem Arboretum. ❤
The ones we have in Kentucky at Bernheim are awesome. So glad we have a little bit of his art here!
I love everything about this🌎♻️
Thank you Thomas
I've had the pleasure of having visited the 6 trolls in the Pacific Northwest and they are all charming, mystical and magical. I visited Frankie Footsplinter in Ballard again recently and discovered something I didn't see the first time we met. I will forever be enchanted with Mr Dambo's artistry and am grateful these fabulous sculptures are in my own backyard.
I've been fortunate enough to see several of these trolls. They are truly amazing to see in person! Thank you for sharing your art with all of us.
This is fantastic, magical and amazing art.
Absolutely magical, and thank you for using reclaimed materials!
One of the best stories on Sunday Morning. The reuse of wood in such a creative way is a bonafide inspiration.
As for the thousands of tons of plastic trash that people produce --- let us all stop being so casual about plastic. STOP using disposable plastic bags at the grocery story. Bring your own bag and use it over and over. // We are destroying the oceans with all the plastic that is discarded.
Not sure what the solution is but we need to break the habit of everything being encased in plastic; from detergents and toiletries, to meats and produce.
My family and I have been lucky enough to see Benny the Beard Fisher. These are very impressive sculptures
Mr. Dambo, kudos, hats off, and respect to you! You are a treasure....who passes on to us other treasures. Thank you.
These are magical to visit. We love them in WA State ❤. Thank you..
Wow! So nice, original, playful, full of details, awareness, teamwork, community, hope, fun and much more. Hopefully, we stop consuming so much, reuse, recycle and change our habits that not only affect the environment and increase climate change, but also do not contribute to us to be better or happy... Thank you, we need more Thomas Dambo in the world. Greetings from Ecuador.
My Dad used to make furniture from scrap/crate wood - he did some really beautiful work.
Knew about the Fremont Bridge Troll in Seattle but not one on Vashon. Will have to check him out!
There are 4 of his trolls near Seattle! He has 1 in Lincoln Park in Seattle, 1 in Issaquah, 1 on Vashon Island, 1 on Bainbridge Island, and there's 1 in Portland, Oregon 😊
Please come to San Francisco Bay Area and build one. I will volunteer to help!
I'm so glad to learn more about Thomas and his art! There are a few inspiring pieces I have seen in the woods at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. I didn't know there were so many others. The work is stunning, but so too is his mission to get folks into nature with their placement. And of course the use of recycled materials. Brilliant!
We enjoyed these so much a couple summers ago at the Maine botanical gardens!
Magnificent!❤
Such unique personalities in each one, gives a since of life.
Wonderful.
Just visited one today in Austin, Tx. It was wonderful!
Mesmerizing!
Into the Woods
Awesome 🤩
I just visited Rita the Rockpiler! I have to see the rest in the US! Such a fun, amazing, and peaceful experience! Thank you Mr. Dambo!
He could document them for a ever growing book ... just a thought ....😊.. just my opinion
I got to help a couple days ago with the Minnesota one! So much fun!
Yes, let us be reminded of all the magic in this world!
Wonderful story. Thank you
One for Minnesota would be fabulous 😊thank for all of them!
I’ve seen the one on Vashon! It’s truly magical.
Magical and magnificent.
Talented and very imaginative artist. Thanks for the beautiful creations.
The Morton Arboretum ones were amazing.
Everyone remembers the story of the troll under the bridge and beware or risk if you can make it to the other side 😂
Ooh do New Mexico next!❤
Love them!
Lovely work!
My basement man cave has been called "Trollville" for years
How magical would it be, to walk up on one of these, unaware it was there?!❤️🤗🐝
I love it. Thank you.
There is a new one in Austin, TX! I'm so excited to go find her.
This man is exceptionally talented! 🎉❤😘🙏 Nice work 💯😀
amazing talent
Thanks, great information
Greatness
This is so awesome ❤
I love Rita the Troll, near Cripple Creek, CO.
I love visiting all of these that be built in the Puget Sound area. I’ll go see another one today!
Wow…just Wow
Needed some Hobbit music 😊
I have seen his works in Atlanta! They are awe inspiring :)
I..I was lucky enough to sit at the lap of one in Breckenridge, Colorado.. Resembles his..but not sure if it is??...
Store Clerk: Mam plastic bags for 30cents? You: Yes, give me 10
that bass voice and bobby bass made the song
This story reminded me of Jirayr Zorthian who was also a trash artist. Amazing how creative some people are!
Pennsylvania needs a few
I love love love it 🙏🍀
WONDERFUL 😊😊😊😊
"Love it!
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I always thought of Trolls as I thought of Rumplestiltskin: largely misunderstood. I reasoned that Trolls might have been a now extinct species of human. Or, conversely an evolving species that "Sapiens" in our arrogance drove to extinction, like the Woolly Mammoths.
Rumpled struck me as a sad little man who could have made himself "wealthy as a King" by spinning straw into gold himself. He had a gift he didn't for his own enrichment because he wanted to be a father.
Then there were The Three Billy Goats Gruff and their encounter with the Trolls that lived under bridges. Trolls were cast as nasty creatures but they were just trying to survive in the world of humans who made everything about "money and power".
Perhaps it was simply "denial" on my part but it seemed to me that Trolls were "not as advertised" and might even be friendly if we reacted to them differently.
Artists have given Trolls life in paintings, sculpture, book illustrations, sketches and even conflated them with giants, as in the Harry Potter stories.
I am delighted to see that a Danish artist has seen fit to re-cycle Trolls from human mythology into wonderful, gigantic, fascinating and awe-inspiring creatures of wood. It is impossible not to love these Trolls. They recall the wonder we felt as children, the laughter and love we found in stories. And maybe even the personalities we sensed in trees, the great-grandfathers of human memory, imagination, shelter, warmthand beauty. I think Trolls fill an important role in the world, on the borders of nature and human culture. I'll sleep better knowing the Trolls are back. 😊
Thank you! This type of story is what I look forward to each Sunday on CBS Sunday Morning. Politics and negative stories are already overdone on the news.
Trolls were warnings to children, of people they didn't understand.
Always asking questions.
How much money do you want to borrow?
Can you pay it back, and with interest?
What do you value, if you don't pay me back?
The reason their noses are SO BIG, air is Free!
🤗I have seen 3 of his trolls in person, including Oscar on Vashon Island 😂
What was that music at the beginning? Love it!!!
Rita is near Victor and Cripple Creek, Colorado 😊❤
So, how long do these big guys last, I wonder?
Why are they using the "Pirate song" from " Pirates of the Caribbean"? These Trolls are incredible!
SALUTE MR. DAMBO GOD BLESS
I would love him to come build one of these on the Illinois River in Southern Oregon with the downed trees from the forest. Your invited Thomas. The Illinois is a wild and Scenic River
I wish he could make one here in bellflower california😢
1:38 is that a reference to Maelstrom from Epcot?
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I am thinking of my Lego pieces that I have kept and my empty glass jug that had wine in it and find out if I can have my artist as a kid surface up ❤
Woodland wooded trolls could be thought of as Ents.
Any in Ct ? Whete do I start ? Im a late grandpa and my grandson loves trolls. I'm in hamden ct
About four and a half hours from Hampden to Boothbay Harbor.
The artist is fine with his work eventually decomposing, and returning to Nature. However, he uses steel pegs to hold his creations together. Steel pegs don't decompose.
I'd say untreated steel decomposes faster than wood. Ever heard of rust?
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What about the troll who cover himself in oil in order to fly in the rain
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So trolls sing pirate songs?
0:14 obviously bro hasn’t seen the seminal classic, Leprechaun 2: Back 2 tha Hood.
Looks like a goya
that's golem the scourge of the judeo world
He might be creative but who wants those creepy looking behemoths lurking in the woods no gracias
He makes statues of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Seriously??
America isn’t worthy to possess fine art like this
No, We want to hear about the Epstein documents
NO
yes
Amazing person! Trash into treasure! 💙
The coastal gardens in Maine features his trolls
Yes. And some are actually cute looking.