There’s a troll takeover happening across North Carolina. In the last month, a troupe of giant wooden trolls, created by Danish Artist Thomas Dambo, has been installed in Asheville, High Point, Charlotte and Raleigh.
In Asheville, 12 trolls are stationed at the North Carolina Arboretum. The traveling exhibit, “Trolls: A Field Study,” opens on Saturday, Nov. 15, and runs through Tuesday, Feb. 17. In the other cities, the trolls are permanent additions to the landscape.
The upcycled wooden sculptures arrived earlier this week in Asheville, packed inside giant trucks. They’re made of fallen branches, wooden pallets, and twigs, and the largest is nine feet tall. The trolls are installed to appear, as much as possible, like part of the natural world…