My ‘nightmare’ neighbour hangs his UNDERWEAR on top of ‘eyesore’ pile of rubbish on front garden – he says it’s ‘art’

A "NIGHTMARE" neighbour has hung his underwear connected apical of an "eyesore" heap of rubbish successful his beforehand plot and called it "art".

Denis Carbonaro has refused to region the latest sculpture extracurricular his location and pledged to "intensify" his efforts - that has been dubbed thing much than "flytipping".

He has piled precocious items specified arsenic dumped buying trolleys and prams, arsenic a protestation nether the guise of "modern art".

The enactment - dubbed a "monstrosity" by residents successful Dalgety Bay, Fife, has led to complaints that it has prevented them from selling their homes.

This has spurred a 1,200-signature petition demanding action.

John Kirby, who was incapable to merchantability his precocious mother's location to screen her attraction fees owed to the construction, said his appeals person been ignored.

John, 61, said alternatively of taking enactment to mitigate the impact, Denis had doubled down and kept adding caller items to it - immoderate successful the signifier of a "dirty protest".

He said: "He conscionable keeps adding much stuff.

"There is present a microwave and a washing enactment going from the location to the histrion - with underwear hung up connected it.

"It is disgusting to person to spot that.

"I don't get him. I cognize helium is aggravated that helium feels radical haven't appreciated his work.

"I was really a large instrumentality conscionable astatine the start. It had the wow origin and I liked the art.

"I thought it was a spot different.

"But since he's gone connected onslaught he's created thing much than an eyesore."

Denis argued his latest enactment astatine the "tourist attraction" The Bark Park was a protestation against radical viewing his creation projects without leaving a donation.

He described it arsenic an "artivist campaign" titled "Wows Don't Grow connected Trees, Garbage and Clutter Do" and says helium has utilized items similar trolleys and prams arsenic "symbolic representations to respond to the ongoing penetration of my privateness and the disregard for my copyright and intelligence property".

Previously helium had displayed a woolly mammoth, a Spanish galleon up a tree, a spider and a shrine during Covid.

John said helium had attempted to get Fife Council to intervene, but they informed him that, arsenic the contented did not airs a nationalist wellness hazard, determination was thing they could do.

He added: "Every time I spell circular and determination is much and much rubbish.

"I bash recognize wherever helium is coming from. But having it successful his beforehand plot is bringing down everyone's spot prices and meant I could not merchantability mum's house.

"She died a fewer weeks agone truthful we've had to instrumentality it disconnected the marketplace until the volition is sorted. But determination is nary constituent re-listing it until the eyesore is gone.

"That is 2 location income present been scuppered. It is making the full bay look awful.

"It's worldly discarded and not vermin truthful determination doesn't look thing anyone tin do.

"We've got 1200 radical present signed the petition but it feels similar it won't marque a batch of quality astatine the moment.

"The location has been taken disconnected the marketplace for present since mum passed away. People were not adjacent going successful to presumption the house. They would marque a booking, thrust up and spot the authorities of the plot and not fuss going inside."

'ABSOLUTE MESS'

John said the plot artwork began with sculptures successful 2015 and started with a mammoth successful the beforehand garden.

This progressed with a spider being built successful the backmost of the location followed by a Spanish galleon up a tree.

During Covid, John mentioned that Denis created a shrine, but soon aft mounting it up, helium "went connected strike."

He said what was erstwhile a fashionable attraction descended into an "absolute mess".

"He present has worldly scattered each crossed his garden," helium added.

"The backmost plot is an implicit mess.

"In a substance of days, helium had dismantled everything and dumped buying trolleys, prams, breadstuff bins and different random items. He classed it arsenic creation - but successful our view, it is thing much than fly-tipping."

John's mum and Denis' neighbour, Doreen Mary Moore, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's successful October 2021 and passed distant past period aged 86.

she had been successful a attraction location since March 2023, and her location was listed connected the marketplace for conscionable nether £160,000 to screen her attraction fees.

Since his mother's passing, John has withdrawn the location from the market, stating that helium volition lone relist it erstwhile the "sculpture" is removed.

He added: "How tin you beryllium allowed to enactment rubbish successful the beforehand plot and people it arsenic creation and bring down the full street?

"The mammoth was fantastic, the spider and vessel up the histrion was great. But it is present conscionable a dumping crushed and he's made nary effort to tidy it up.

"It's an implicit monstrosity."

Denis mentioned that his archetypal program was to alteration his location successful Dalgety Bay, Fife, into a tourist attraction and sculpture park.

'BOYCOTT'

He antecedently spoke retired erstwhile helium unveiled a galleon sculpture, implicit with rigging and a mast, crafted from recycled wood.

He worked arsenic a sculptor successful Sicily earlier coming to Scotland astir 25 years ago, wherever helium worked successful web plan and IT for banks.

But aft suffering burn-out, helium discontinue his occupation and returned to his emotion of art.

Responding to the latest allegations, helium said helium was present covering up his enactment with "trash" and warned this volition intensify and continue.

He described his existent actions arsenic a "boycott'".

Denis added:: "I americium intentionally hiding my 'wows' nether elements of trash and clutter to support my privateness and repel the deficiency of respect for my 4 cardinal rights.

"This boycott, which you are alert of, volition proceed and intensify arsenic I combat for designation and respect."

He earlier said: "As portion of my long-standing campaign, 'WOWS DON'T GROW ON TREES, GARBAGE AND CLUTTER DO!', I person utilized items similar trolleys and prams arsenic symbolic representations to respond to the ongoing penetration of my privateness and the disregard for my copyright and intelligence property.

"Despite the important section involvement successful my work, including visits from John and his friends, I person not received the indispensable fiscal enactment done the donation caskets I person acceptable up.

"Why, aft visitors repeatedly asked for a donation container during Bark Park's archetypal fewer months, did they ne'er lend erstwhile it was created and disposable by December 2015? They had lone requested the donation thorax but did not enactment it erstwhile it was provided.

"Regarding the accusation of "flytipping," I indispensable stress that these items are portion of a deliberate artivist run and clasp important meaning.

"Bark Park has been a section diagnostic for implicit 9 years, attracting visitors and admirers of my inventive works.

"The clutter John refers to is, successful fact, a originative connection against the exploitation I've experienced from neighbours and visitors alike, who person failed to connection enactment contempt enjoying the installations."

Fife Council told The Sun that they person nary powers to intervene.

Alastair Hamilton, Service manager, confirmed that assembly colleagues had visited the property.

He added: "We responded to a ailment and having investigated the concerns, nary further enactment is being taken.

"However, the concerns of neighbours person been raised with the owners of the property."