Just Trash?
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. 26 year old Justin Gignac makes a living by picking up garbage in New York, but he’s not a ‘garbage man.’ He’s an ‘artist.’ Gignac carefully collects New Yorker’s Egg McMuffin wrappers, scratched Lotto tickets as well as anything else that might be found in or around the gutter and packages it in small plexiglass cases. The signed and editioned pieces sell for fifty to one hundred dollars. Dumpster dive further into Gignac’s project here.
