This Danish artist has hidden giant, recycled wooden trolls across the world – can you find all 100?

Danish artist Thomas Dambo is thought for utilizing recycled wooden to create giant, bold sculptures.

After developing 99 picket trolls throughout Denmark, Belgium, Germany, the USA, Puerto Rico and South Korea, he’s simply added a one hundredth to the sequence. However it’s in a thriller location. 

To seek out the one hundredth troll it’s a must to discover all 99 others first. May this be the world’s largest treasure hunt?

The place can I discover the trolls?

Thomas Dambo has created a fancy treasure hunt to seek out ‘Moon Mom’, his one hundredth troll sculpture of a pregnant mom, who he says has “crawled into probably the most secret spot within the forest” to provide start.

His big figures are impressed by Scandinavian people tales. They’re usually situated off the overwhelmed observe to tempt youngsters and adults to enterprise out into nature, and to indicate what you are able to do with recycled supplies.

“I hope that my artwork will be part of the motion that exhibits folks that trash will not be disgusting and it is not nugatory and it is not one thing you need to simply burn,” explains Dambo.

“It is one thing that has the worth to deliver hundreds of individuals out to seek out it as a treasure on the finish of a treasure hunt.”

Dambo’s sculptures have been visited by about 10 million folks, he says. Every one is exclusive, with its personal identify, design and persona.

The right way to full the treasure hunt

To seek out Moon Mom, recognized in Danish as ‘Måne Mor’, followers should piece collectively codes on the plaques subsequent to his first 99 trolls the world over. Although they are often discovered in lots of international locations, the bulk are in the US and Dambo’s native Denmark. 

Dambo spent 9 years developing the trolls and needed to do one thing somewhat completely different for the one hundredth.

“I made a decision to make an excellent secret one and make it an intricate treasure hunt that leads you round all the opposite ones I’ve made by the years,” he says.

As soon as followers have discovered all of the codes, a riddle will reveal the placement of the brand new troll.

“It is somewhat bit cryptical, somewhat bit onerous,” Dambo admits.

How does Thomas Dambo assemble his trolls?

Dambo’s works are made virtually solely of recycled supplies. The face of Moon Mom, for example, is produced from oak scraps from a Danish flooring firm.

“I prefer to construct all my issues out of trash as a result of I feel that trash is a treasure,” Dambo says.

In the course of the building of his one hundredth piece, Dambo went to excessive lengths to maintain the positioning a secret. He didn’t even inform his personal workforce the precise location till the ultimate phases.

He additionally made his workforce use a special path for entry day by day in order to not go away tracks and entice any guests.

A number of the areas of Dambo’s trolls are in distant wilderness and have required his workforce to move all of the supplies by hand to location for building.

Watch the video above to see extra of Dambo’s trolls.