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After months of simmering tension over a $4,300 piece of public art that is literally two bales of shrink-wrapped household waste, the residents of Northwest Saskatoon awoke this week to find that it had been wrapped in black plastic and affixed with a sign reading “our tax dollars are for keeping garbage OFF the streets.”

“I don’t need more garbage making our neighbourhood look like that,” local resident Luke Coupal told Postmedia soon after his Easter Sunday installation of the tarp.

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The plastic has since been removed, but Mr. Coupal hopes his opposition is only the beginning.

As he told CBC Saskatoon, “for anyone who has seen this piece of artwork, you’ll agree instantly that this is not achieving the objective of beautifying the city and improving the commercial area.”

Installed last November at the corner of Avenue C and 33rd St., Found Compressions One and Two consists of two large bundles of discarded plastics and packaging placed at a Saskatoon street corner and accompanied by a small sign.