Inspired by Lennard @ "dont ask me, I just work here" and the posting about Chicago oddball painter Henry Darger, I remembered stumbling on his New York equivalent John Evans a few years ago in a catalogue back home.
His quiet obsessive labor ment that he over 37 years, from 1964 - 2000, everyday collected whatever remidies, playing cards, cigarette packs, flyers, businesscards, adverts, cookie fortunes, postcards, escort service leaflets, posters...whatever...lying around the streets of his neighbourhood, East Village in New York. He would then sit and meticuously put the pieces together in collages on painted backgounds. By the end of 2000 John Evans had created more than 10.000 "daily" collages filling more than a 100 notesbooks. He still lives and works in New York, now in his 70`s.

pick it up:
http://www.nyhistory.org/evans2/