09-03-23

 

I am so excited about the trolls coming to the Pacific Northwest!  I have seen photos of the trolls this artist makes and love them and never thought it would be so easy to see them close to home.  Anastasia and I took the ferry to Bainbridge and walked a pleasant mile to the park.

Each troll has a poem written by the artist.

Thomas Dambo is a Danish artist who works with recycled materials to place over 100 troll sculptures all over the world.  The NW Trolls, Way of the Bird King project, is presented by Scan Design Foundation, whose mission is to advance Danish-American relations, celebrates the human experience of art by amplifying a network of communities and it reinforces shared values of environmental stewardship and sustainability.

Pia’s Poem:

 Pretty pretty please, let’s keep the peace beneath the trees. Hold you in my hand I will remind you with a squeeze. Quiet little people cause your criers make me tired. Pia likes to play with people, people they keep quiet.

Pia “is like a playful troll, because she is playing with the humans, but she’s also a little bit scary, because she’s kind of strong, like a little girl can sometimes by accident break a leg or poke an eye out or light a fire to the hair of her doll,” Thomas Dambo said. “Don’t upset Pia, because you might lose a leg.”