S-One Expo Stuttgart
Marina At Keppel Bay
South, Singapore
November 2012
Wooden figurines were first produced in the Erzgebirge region in East Germany, and in Black Forest, in the south-west. These ares are home to huge tracks of forest covering 60% of their land area. These wooden figurines provided a good source of income for the inhabitants.
Over the years, the wooden figurines of the Nutcracker, Santa Claus, and animals have become popular with some of them found in the famous Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks.
The walls and tables of this booth were laminated with
wallpaper of the Nutcracker with its oversized head and big teeth...
The amount of details in these carvings is beautifully intricate - On a backpack carried by a wooden figurine, there are even smaller figurines, small farm animals, and wooden houses. See the clown hanging from the rack and the piglet at his feet?
A halved figure with a paper silhouette pasted at its feet...
Merlion Wayfarer would like to think that it is a rotor blade at the back of the guy in black. Who knows, he might be a fairy tale character flies like a helicopter?
But thinking back, the round "fan" could also be the brush of a chimney sweep?
