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GNÖM (pronounced Noom) - three common representations.

2025

Plywood, wood, found objects, stained filler, rusted iron paint, milk paint, iron nails

40 x 18 x 7cm, 52 x 16 x 9cm and 50 x 13 x 8cm

Household god of the inexplicable mains power trip in the middle of the night.

A group of three effigies of GNÖM (left to right: GNÖM the Younger, GNÖM the Elder and GNÖM the Mature) as maquettes of large scale effigies of the god on wheeled carriages for the annual village procession known widely as Upprisa Festival. They were all collected in rural Sussex around 1900.

© 2025 John Steed.

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