Beneath it, three volunteers of the Ukrainian Donbass battalion were smoking on a worn sofa amid a jumble of plastic flowers, concrete rubble, ammunition, and dirty dishes, dappled in shade cast by camouflage netting.
His materials are often throwaway: fluorescent plastic, DIY foam, builders' rubble.
In districts flattened during last summer's war with Israel, families huddle beneath plastic tarpaulins amid the rubble.
There is a pink plastic sandal in the rubble, an embroidered dress of indigo material and a towel of the same colour that lies across stairs thick with drifts of atomised breeze block.
According to the London Evening Standard council workers claimed they found rubbish - including plastic food wrappers, glass bottles, rubble and faeces piled as high as 1.5 metres in the house.
For the past three nights, Richard Mejía and his neighbours have set up camp in an empty lot across the street from their homes, placing eight mattresses they were able to pull from the rubble under black plastic sheeting.
Arrayed before him were rakes and shovels, and beyond them, tons of unexamined rubble: piping and plastic and cement and steel and paper, all improbably fused together and coated with the gray powder of pulverized concrete.
Patiently sifting through the rubble for torn plastic bags, scraps of cardboard and metal and the soles of worn-out shoes, together they can earn up to $120 a month, a sum inconceivable back home.
Items accepted include, steel and aluminium cans, cardboard, paper, electrical equipment, engine oil, fridges and freezers, garden waste, gas bottles, glass, liquid food and drinks cartons, plastic bottles, plastic carrier bags, rubble, scrap metal, shoes and handbags, spectacles, textiles, tin foil, wood and yellow pages.
Made ground in Dublin is characterised by a high degree of variation in natural and man-made constituents, often including plastic, brick, glass, ceramics, construction rubble and historical industrial waste such as ash, clinker and metals.
