Trolls have started leaving their prints across America, trolling menacing figures in folklore. Even though they haven’t eaten anybody so far, they have this new message which is meant to shake people’s beliefs with a new item: Trash is treasure.
“It’s an advertisement for rubbish,” says Thomas Dambo who has crafted more than 150 troll figures all over the globe. “I want trash to become trendy and hipster-like so as to reduce wastage.”
For roughly ten years now, the Danish “rubbish artist” has been making huge trolls from dumped products like discarded wood pallets. The weight of these sculptures is around five tons and they are now found in more than twelve countries and U.S. states. Dambo’s most challenging project so far was completed in June that included five trolls among other big sculptures situated in Detroit Lakes located in Minnesota.
With quirky names and tales; trolls such as Ronny Funny Face attracts people’s attention but Dambo also would like them to understand where these trolls originated from i.e., from littered objects just like their surroundings places which sometimes include places like Jackson Hole in Wyoming or forests close from South Korea demilitarized zone.