So many of the assemblages (from other outside artists) are really schlocky and obvious,” she said. “His (work) has always had a lot of heart and soul to it, and a tremendous amount of elegance, on par with anything you’d see in a museum.”
Art gave Justin something greater than notoriety, though.
“My whole life up until 1991 was pure tension. It was survival. In 1993, I started making my guys, and it all went away,” he said.
“Everything I had chased all my life, I found.