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Trolls, Kew Gardens, London

 

Trolls are often presented as ugly and menacing, but these gentle giants welcome visitors to London’s Kew Gardens with a smile on their faces.

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Danish artist Thomas Dambo has created two giant trolls that share a meal from garbage bins strewn with an assortment of vegetables. The aim is to show visitors the benefits of plant-based, sustainable food for our nutritional health. Not sure about the garbage bins, though!

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The sculptures are made from recycled wood from a number of sources: discarded shipping pallets from a hardware store, scraps from a nearby lumber yard and debris from fallen trees. The artist refers to this as “rearranging other people’s trash,” for protection of the land.

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"Not all who wander are lost."  JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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