About the project

This playground is one of five art playgrounds constructed by the City of Copenhagen in 2009 and 2010. The playground was developed in co-operation with the painter Peter Land. It includes a giant play head, two hand, ten mushrooms and a swing.
The head and the hands are made of numerous layers of wood that are finely shaped on the outside and forms complex shapes on the inside like in a tortuous brain.

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h1.The Play Head

What does it look like inside a real playhead? Tortuous! There are many ways to move around inside the brain, with narrow tunnels to crawl and platforms for, e.g., making a sand cake. The eyes of the play head are prism-shaped coloured windows lighting up the inside of the head in orange and blue.

On the outside, the play head is a cross between a climbing frame and a slideway. The primary objective is of course to sit on the top of the head.
In addition to being a playing equipment, the head is also a sculpture with references to artists who have worked with fabulous creations, all the way from Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel, etc., and up to the surrealists.