Fun with Bedding

What to do with that full sized mattress found festering behind the studio building? Jules and I wasted no time in turning it into an impromtu trampoline. It's a foam mattress so it proved especially springy and resilient. Of course, all mattresses when taken out of contrast will eternally remind me of my art installation "Be ReBorn Thru Art" which you may recall featured a mattress repurposed as a big vagina. What fun that was!
Discarded objects (and let's face it: we have a bumper crop of them!) keep appearing. Things like broken cinder blocks and bits of wood and other materials that will decompose are finding their way into the strip of land behind Bob's studio where they become fill. Bob wants to build up the ground level there and make an outside work area.
Other objects- like mattresses and plaid recliners- prove more problematic and have to be chopped up into smaller pieces and stuffed in (millions of) garbage bags and hauled to the dump. It's exhausting just how much stuff was left behind: piles and piles of roof shingles (all bearing exposed nails) and many square miles of carpeting that I offered in a previous posting. (No takers yet!)
I am constantly amazed at how terribly people use their land. Here we live on a truly beautiful piece of earth and essentially it has been treated like a waste heap. I can't help but feel the ground is heaving multiple sighs of relieve that we are cleaning up.