My First Trash Art

While cleaning out my house to become a nomad, I found my first piece of trash art: photo of interior of garbage can circa 1998 Germany at a castle somewhere I don’t remember. My friends acted very confused and weirded out I took a picture of trash. One asked “what ARE you doing?” I responded - it’s art. I tried to submit this piece multiple times as a teenager to school and local art shows for it to be rejected. I still held the photo tho because I thought it was valuable and honestly pretty.