Ota Prouza (born in 1959) has lived for more than 50 years in a sheltered home for the handicapped in the town of Brtníky. He has no professional training; even his reading and writing abilities are very limited. Despite living in a rural setting, he has been fascinated by the hustle and bustle of the big city all his life, depicting it in drawings on paper strips many meters long and roughly pasted-together.