The Six Forgotten Giants are large wooden sculptures by Thomas Dambo set in the wilderness around Copenhagen.
Scrap wood, volunteers, and hidden sites
The source text says Dambo is a Danish artist who works with recycled wood. It also says that over three years he made 25 large recycled sculptures around the world, and more recently crafted six secret giants in Copenhagen.
According to the source page, the project is titled The Six Forgotten Giants. It was commissioned by the Municipality of Vallensbæk and Vestegnens Kulturuge, and the six sculptures were made from scrap wood with the help of local volunteers. The same page says the project was placed in the western municipalities of Copenhagen: Rødovre, Hvidovre, Vallensbæk, Ishøj, Albertslund and Høje Taastrup. It also says the project aimed to bring art out of the museum, show beautiful and often overlooked nature spots, and give an exciting and different experience.
How the figures appear in the photographs
The images show oversized human-like figures built from pale timber pieces. Their surfaces are made up of short planks and blocky segments, which give the bodies a faceted look. In several photographs, the figures lie low against the ground, stretching under trees, beside water, and beneath a bridge. Other images show a giant head raised on supports, and one giant with a face, long hair-like branches, and a torso made from layered wood.
People appear throughout the set, sometimes standing on the sculptures and sometimes working close to them during construction. The figures sit in grassy, wooded, and waterside landscapes, with strong blue sky in several images and deep shade in others. One image shows a giant tucked under a bridge over water; another shows a giant reclining beside a path with children nearby. The overall set presents the sculptures as part of the landscape rather than separate from it.
Hints, maps, and a treasure hunt
The existing text says each sculpture can be found using a treasure map or a poem embedded into a stone near each figure. It also says the poems give clues on how to find the various giants, and that there is a map available to use to find them.
The same text says each sculpture was created with the help of local volunteers and named after one of the volunteers. It also includes Dambo’s statement that he hoped the work would encourage people to see the big potential in recycling and to take better care of the planet.
Oscar Under The Bridge
Thomas On The Mountain
Little Tilde
‘At each sculpture, there is a poem that gives hints to find the next one’
‘The sculptures are made from recycled wood’
‘Here are my two favorite supermodels Gorm and Knud!’
‘Here’s a map that you can use to find them:’
