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“Outstanding service. They were extremely careful delivering the extra large container into our driveway.” -- A. L. GARNER
Westchester, just north of the Bronx. I passed innumerable auto shops, a massive street-salt pile and Saint Paul’s Church, a national historic site that was used as a British Army hospital during the Revolutionary War. (The church tower’s bell, which still hangs there today, was cast in the same foundry as Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and was buried by the parishioners to stop the British from melting it down for ammunition.)I eventually found Harman on a side street, standing next to the skip, assessing the cubic sculpture coming together inside. Built from the detritus found in the dumpster—bits of plywood, surprisingly lovely slabs of marble and so much cardboard—the unfinished piece looked as if it would fit next to any Arte Povera work or example of anarchitecture by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark. The rough diagonal line on the front of the work emerged as Harman began to assemble it and discovered that his spirit level was “useless” against the competing slants of the potholed street and the bent steel sides of the dumpster. [embedded content]Kevin Harman working on Skip 16 (2018) in Mt Vernon, New YorkFilm by Christopher L. CookHarman had been labouring in the lugger, without assistants, for 18-hour stretches for two days, staying until at least midnight and relying on a headlamp to see into the container’s tight, dark corners, since the street light above was broken. After clearing out organic materials (decomposing fruit, a bag of coleslaw, half a chicken squashed in tin foil) and scrubbing the dumpster’s inside walls to get rid of any “dribblage contamination” and smelly residues, he set to work creating order out of chaos. Although he sketches out ideas for the structure, he does not know what the finished work will look like until he starts building it. But he always starts with an understanding of the materials he has to work with,... (Art Newspaper)
ON ORGANIZED TRASH COLLECTIONSt Paul residents could ask those living in a town with organized trash collection to see how they like it.We in North Saint Paul had our trash collection organized about 10 years ago so we knows how it works. The town implemented the system because it would be cheaper and save our roads from all the trash trucks. We used to have 2 or 3 trash haulers pick bags up at the curbing, simple with one trip down the street for each hauler because they could cover both sides of the street with one trip. If we didn’t like our hauler we could change to a different one.We now have as many as 7 garbage trucks driving down our streets picking: trash, recycle, yard waste, bulk items AND soon we will have food waste picked up. Once food waste is picked up we will have 9 trucks wearing out our streets. The cost for all this madness is way higher than our old simple service, look out for bulk item pickup. Bulk item pickup is a scam where you MUST pay a fee if you use it or not in NSP.Oh yes we also have to find a place to store the ugly trash container, ugly yard waste container, ugly recycle container and soon ugly foo... (TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press)