West NC InSight

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.

Dambo, the man behind the trolls, said the “field study” exhibit in Asheville is all about encouraging human beings to see themselves from a new perspective. And by that, he means from a troll’s perspective.

“I hope that people will find it fun,” he said. “Fun to see yourself through a lens of something else. We need to see ourselves through others to really understand who we are, right?”

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