People are sharing photos of painted mattresses around London

Do you have a foosty, disused mattress lurking in your flat? Maybe you have one going grey with mould, disintegrating into a slimy, spongey mush in your back garden? Is that a yes? Time for an art project. 

Londoners have been transforming their old mattresses into public art, with a flurry of photographs documenting the quirky, graffitied junk shared as the latest craze on social media.

One photograph shared by a Facebook user shows a mattress dumped in a Finchley driveway, complete with an angry cartoon face sprawled over its front. Others are a bit more sophisticated, such as this festive one snapped by another Facebook user featuring a colourful Christmas tree. But perhaps the best ones are those with truly cryptic messages – because only in the capital would people seize the opportunity to share their gloom while waiting for the council to deal with their shit.

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