“Photographs by Marcus Bullik, from his series
“Volksfiguren der Dorfgesellschaft” (Folk Figures of Village Society)
"On the subject of Greenmen, Kathleen Blandsford writes:“these are often allusions to man’s own frail, fallen, and concupiscent nature and to his brief life on earth. The imagery is often ambiguous; a greenman who at first glance seems the very personification of ‘summar is i-comen in’ may on closer inspection reveal himself as a deadly horror hidden in the leaves. Their expressions suggest various levels of inebriation: belllicose, morose, even comatose, but seldom jocose.”
