Trunks

The ‘trunks’ are explicitly linked to the finca in Spain. They were created there on the spot.

When Van de Brake bought the finca, the terrain was strewn with uprooted, dead pear trees. The sad remnant of a pear nursery where pears were grown for the canning industry… but that was years ago.

As a lover of trees, he had a brilliant idea: All those dead pear trees had been pruned into a standard model with a trunk and three thick branches. If you turned such an uprooted tree over, you had a kind of tripod… that could be shaped into a human figure. This was the origin for a new ‘tribe’ of trunks. Trunks that would populate the finca, which once had been an inn for passing shepherds and their flocks.

The new tribe now numbers around 400 quirky individuals and has reached its maximum size because the tree trunks are almost gone. Most of them have changed shape several times since their creation, because they were scourged by the merciless weather gods. They now find shelter in the crowded inn and the work and storage room.

Many more trunks