I took some pictures of ‘hard waste’ – the piles of stuff left on the nature strip to get picked up by the local council. I tried to remember what was in the piles before I looked at the photographs. I remembered a bicycle, a metal and plastic ‘hospital’ chair, a television, mosquito screens, lots of wood and those black plastic planters that you always see on the side of the road. I didn’t really analyse the piles, before I took the pictures. Maybe bicycles are a most distinctive thing and that is why I remembered the bicycle.
You definitely get a better class of rubbish in Toorak!
They look like readymade roadside sculptures, some are cleverly organised with objects stacked inside other objects. Some objects are unrecognisable (e.g. those things that look like land-mines in Caulfield.
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