As promised in a previous part I will be making few separate posts about street art and dwarfs and some intersting stuff about wroclaw. I was kinda disappointed that I didn't find Gimli but still some great stuff was there.
Two firefighters you are familiar with from the previous post.
How did the city end up with so many dwarfs statues?
(People of Wroclaw and Poland forgive my ignorance - these are just thing I heard/read about sometimes-somewhere, so correct me if I am wrong.)
Apparantly in the 80's when communism was still utopian regime. Anti-communist group of wroclaw (Orange Alternative) proclaimed the dwarf as their symbol. Since then graffitis were drawn with pollitical slogan, transparent and all the "rebellion" stuff included a dwarf.
In 2001, first dwarf was placed in the main street of Wroclaw - Papa dwarf to commemorate the movement. No drama about it. Then in 2005 artist Tomasz Moczek designed 5 more dwarfs, and many more followed.
What is interesting about it... Wroclaw and people from Wroclaw are all about these dwarfs - like they are here from prehistoric period. Gimli and his brothers designed and made them. even tho the project is about 13 years old.
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However they are funny, original and cute! And you can bump on them in every part of the city. Alcoholics, musicians, nerds, cool guys, all in all everyday people! :)
and once again I present you Jimmy Hendrix with a surprise song.
Until next post...
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