TONY DREAMS IN YELLOW AND BLUE, PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK LEWIS, WORDS BY TANYA ZACK

TONY DREAMS IN YELLOW AND BLUE, PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK LEWIS, WORDS BY TANYA ZACK. FIRST EDITION, BOOK2/10 IN A TEN BOOK SERIES OF JOHANNESBURG STORIES, SOFTCOVER, 2014, 26 PAGES, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

In the nondescript working class suburb of Turffontein, which has always hosted migrants, a restless outsider artist is at work transforming his home into a veritable castle of lights, turrets, murals, manikins and stairways. He is an obsessive collector of waste, but also an entrepreneur whose property is home to 17 rent-paying households. Writer and urban planner Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis dig up another story of a remarkable citizen of the city who has spent most of his life transforming 500 square metre patch of urban soil.