The Kneeling Woman and other strange things

In the rather run-down area behind the college where I have seen the Broad-winged Hawks (see a previous post) there are some strange goings-on.  It is an overgrown place with dumpsters, untended garden plots and an apiary.  There is also a couple of "figures".  One is of a kneeling woman crafted out of chicken wire and what looks like fabric and plaster (and possibly human hair stuffing), and the other is a tall, black, long-eared  figure leaning casually on a tree with a shopping cart nearby. 

It was the kneeling woman who first caught my attention.  The area is adjacent to a grave yard with various statuary so at first I thought "she" was a statue.  Then on closer examination I saw how she was fashioned and it intrigued me.  I wondered who had made her and why.

I was going almost every day and although I never saw anyone, I would notice changes in the area.  One day I thought she was gone and then I saw her in a rocking chair.  Someone had brought the chair and put her in it.

On another day the chair had been turned around giving her a new view of the area.  That was a breezy day and as I viewed her from a distance, the wind lifted a scrap of the fabric on her side and it looked like she was lifting her arm (as though she were adjusting a shawl or reaching for something).  I have to say it startled me!

Then, a day or so later, the chair was empty and she lay smashed on the ground.  It felt like finding the body of a murder victim.  

All the other strange things (as shown below) took on a sinister aspect.

Ceramic fertility figure?

Scarecrow?

These two small structures were found hanging from branches nearby.

A fallen tree has silken threads wound around several of its branches.

All of it is rather strange.  I still go there but certainly only in broad daylight.