“I was a total headache for my parents growing up,” says Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo, perched on the trunk of a eucalyptus tree in the bushland of Mandurah, an hour south of Perth. “I had so much energy and I loved building stuff, but I was so impatient. If I had an idea, I had to build it right now using whatever I could find around me.”
When Dambo was just seven years old, he bought a mountain of cushions from the flea market to construct a games room in his parents’ basement. As a teenager, he built a “crazy” fortress in his back yard, connecting two treetop houses by a zip line and a series of underground tunnels.
