WAUWATOSA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The brand new Firefly Grove Park is formally open on Wauwatosa’s west facet, and guests will probably be greeted by a whimsical creature.
“One thing humorous with these flowers
Some have particular wants and powers
There’s no roots beneath these flowers
Rain don’t rain upon these flowers
One thing humorous with these flowers
Comes from nothing in an hour
There’s no honey bees, these flowers
Don’t have any honey in these flowers
One thing humorous with these flowers
Stands all summer season, received’t go bitter
When the solar’s asleep, these flowers glow
I’m wondering how these flowers develop?”
That poem marks the spot of a soon-to-be acquainted face in Wauwatosa.
Her identify is Mama Rosa, a 25-foot-tall troll overlooking the brand new playground.
She is the primary sculpture by artist Thomas Dambo within the state of Wisconsin.
“I say that my trolls are just like the protectors of the vegetation and the animals, they usually communicate for them,” Dambo stated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday.
Hailing from Denmark, Dambo has constructed 156 trolls world wide, all with recycled supplies.
“We must always deal with our trash like a treasure,” Dambo defined.
Mama Rosa is fabricated from outdated timber from Wauwatosa neighborhoods, and she or he is holding a bouquet of discarded gentle posts that Dambo discovered on the metropolis’s public works constructing.
“I like to return in, discover one thing that has no worth, after which give it some worth,” Dambo stated.
The lights even work, because of photo voltaic panels on the park.
The sculpture and the park had been each funded by resort tourism taxes and grants.
“He’s now stated it twice — that is his favourite troll of 156 he’s accomplished,” Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride stated about Dambo. “We’re holding him to that.”
These trolls have devoted followers, and Mayor McBride expects Mama Rosa to be a vacationer attraction.
“By having Wauwatosa grow to be an artwork vacation spot, which we’re and can proceed to be, we’re going to fill these rooms and eating places, and all people will profit from it,” McBride defined.
Dambo hopes the sculpture teaches onlookers an vital lesson.
“It’s to indicate the world that our trash will not be soiled, disgusting, harmful, and nugatory,” he defined. “It will be important and may convey out hundreds of thousands of individuals that may come get pleasure from and have a look at our trash.”
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