No, citizen, this isn’t one of those internet trolls that lurk all anonymously and like to stir up shit online. This is a real-world troll. This is a more traditional, definitely more affable, Scandinavian sort of troll – but much bigger. It’s the kind of creature that Danish artist Thomas Dambo has been constructing from recycled materials and installing across the globe for years.
, please note where we said “recycled materials” above. This Dambo fellow’s all about the creative reuse of resources – in fact, such recycling, in addition to delighting the art-loving public, is his life’s mission. This Pease Park troll’s looming corpus is being conjured mostly from the boards of a decommissioned water tower on UT’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus, reclaimed and milled by the professional sawyers of Harvest Lumber.