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I decided to check out the local outdoor art exhibition, the , by -based : these huge wooden sculptures found all around () and they are absolutely stunning!!

I took some more photos along my journey that I'll post in the comments 🧵👀

Photo of the first giant, Santi Ikto. It is made of rectangular wooden planks for the head, limbs, hands and feet, and smaller wooden planks of varying tones of brown for the body. Santi Ikto is bald and has large sticks for a beard. It has its hands raised towards the ocean with legs crossed. The background is bushy and sandy dunes with an almost-clear blue sky, save for thin clouds on the horizon.
Photo of the fourth giant, Little Lui. Same as before, wooden tiles for hands and limbs, thicker tiles for the body. Bush land in the background. This one is slightly chubbier and is sitting upright with its feet in front of it, and it's left hand holding a fallen tree uprooted from the ground. It is smiling and has very shaggy hair made of a lot of sticks.
Photo of the third giant, Vivi Cirklestone, before it was burnt by arsonists. There are wooden panels on its hands and arms, and thicker, smaller wooden planks of varying shades of brown for its body, as are all the giants. This one is bald also. It has its right claw in the ground digging for something, is resting its head in its left arm, and is crouched towards the ground. As Vivi Cirklestone's name implies, it is surrounded by a circle of stones. There are thin eucalyptus trees in the background.
Photo of the sixth, hidden giant, Jyttes Hytte, which is almost identical to Vivi Cirklestone but sitting upright and wrapping both its arms and legs around a tree. It smiles and there's more bush land in the background.
8 Feb 2023, 4:08:36 pm [original]
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The came with these traveller's companions which explained more about Thomas Dambo and the Indigenous significance of the land on which these sculptures are placed on.

I have transcribed the below pictures in the alt text:

A photo of the opening of the Giants Travellers' Companion titled "ABOUT THOMAS DAMBO" showing a photo of him building one of the giants on the left page, framed by wavy green circles. To the right reads: "Thomas Dambo is considered the world's leading recycle artist, having been taught from a young age the value of recycling, sustainability, and unlimited imagination. "Both an artist and an activist, Thomas has exhibited extensively throughout the world including Denmark, USA, France, Germany, China, South Korea and Chile. His practise (based in Copenhagen, Denmark) celebrates the diversity, beauty and importance of the natural world, with the artist's larger-than-life sculptures handmade using recycled and locally sourced materials. "Thomas' vision is to create art that inspires people to go explore, have adventures in nature, and to demonstrate that trash can be turned into something beautiful. This is the first time that any of his Giants have been seen in Australia."
Photo of a green page headlined in gold: "MANDJOORGOORDAP.* THE MEETING PLACE OF THE HEART". Below that reads: "Where an epic adventure begins, the hunt for the Giants of Mandurah. "A journey into the extraordinary beauty of the wetlands, waterways, bushland and wildlife on the lands of the Binjareb Noongar people. "A quest that traces the movement and cycle of water: from ocean to air, from air into land, and back again. Through coastal dunes ... up into the clouds ... from the ocean to the bush ... via precious wetlands ... to secret water under the earth ... back to the shorelines ... deep into our imaginations ... "An opportunity, gifted by the Bindjareb people, to learn more about the Creation Story of Djilba Gabi.** And to reaffirm the importance of protecting our natural world, just as the Bindjareb have protected their Country for over 50,000 years. "A game that keeps you guessing until the end."
A wooden sign at the start of all paths leading to each giant reading: "THE BINDJAREB CREATION STORY "In the beginning... All across the land there was a terrible drought, The bush, plants, and meat became hard, tough and rank. So three old people from the tribe, Elders, went down to the sea. They began to pray to their creator for water so that the trees could have some sap, and the animals could get tenderness in their meat. "Having created the inlet, Wagyl gave birth to its young in the estuary, which formed its unique shape. "Wagyl's young stayed in the estuary until they grew bigger. Soon the young left their birthplace, travelling away uphill and forming the Murray, Harvey, and Serpentine rivers as they moved across the land. "The mother, Wagyl, she missed her young ones, and thought they'd gone southwards. She went down, underground, and came up at Lake Clifton to look for them... Not finding her young, she went down to Lake Preston, and looked around there. She kept going around enough that way which created the flat land close to the Leschenault Estuary at Australind. "She went in through the Leschensult Estuary and right back around into the ocean, still looking. She never found her children. "The little ones actually went up to the east. They were fat when they left and they started going uphill, forming the rivers and the swamps, which were their resting places. They kept going until they were famished, starved, and they started dissolving." (Out of room)
8 Feb 2023, 4:19:11 pm [original]