In 1992 I served a year as SELF APPOINTED ARTIST IN RESIDENCE TO THE A MOUNTAIN HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT.  I made a quonset hut out of pallets and stocked it with books from the library dumpster.  Steve Leal gave me an old lawn mower and I made a dummy and set it on an exercycle pushing the lawn mower.  I planted grass in the dummy and named him "ART".  When the cops asked who lived in the quonset hut, the campers all said, "Art".  I did concerts with my one man band and did drawings of the campers.  The encampment looked like a 1930's "Hooverville".  I loved it but the city was embarrassed by it and had it bulldozed.