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A friendly troll has taken up residence in Pease Park, and Austin is going troll crazy. Built by Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo, who dreams up and installs whimsical, wooden trolls at sites all over the world, Malin is Dambo’s latest creation.
Commissioned by Pease Park Conservancy and funded by donors, 18-foot-tall Malin sits placidly in a glade along a wooded trail, holding a shallow bowl and gazing down at her human visitors.
Her bowl is an offering of water to wildlife, but she might need our help to keep it filled.
According to KUT.org, Dambo “first visited Austin in August 2023 — during one of the hottest summers the city has ever experienced….Dambo learned that Austinites put out bowls of water to help squirrels and birds. That idea of human-animal cooperation formed the basis for Malin’s design. ‘We have to remember that we coexist in our world together with the animals,’ he said. ‘Humans take up more and more and more and more space of the world, so basically there’s only the leftover space left for the animals. So they can only exist if we allow them to.’”
A poem about Malin’s fountain (her bowl) is engraved on a nearby rock, seemingly quoting from the troll herself:
Sometimes the summer times are dry
Sometimes the sky will cry
Sometimes the fountain is full of rain
Sometimes an empty drain
Sometimes are good for summer birds
Sometimes are cursed with thirst
So it always makes a difference when
You fill the fountain up again
Like all Dambo trolls, most of the wood used to construct Malin came from recycled, repurposed, or found materials, according to Pease Park Conservancy. Her shaggy, gray hair is made from cedar tree roots!
Malin’s theme of water scarcity and helping wildlife fits right in with Austin’s ethos. I hope she lives a long, happy life in Pease Park engaging with visitors.
While we were at the park, we stopped to play in the Treehouse, a Death Star-looking steel sphere with a gigantic net suspended in the middle.
A steel catwalk leads you inside.
My husband carefully bounded around a few kids and
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