Friday Street Art

The good people at Wooster Collective report that street artist JR has finished a project in which "2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera [one of Africa's largest slums]. The material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. The train that passes on this line through Kibera at least twice a day has also been covered with eyes from the women that live below it. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces have be pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes will match their smiles and their faces will be complete.

This new work, by far JR's most ambitious to date, can be seen from space and will be seen in Google Earth." Seen from space! Art that protects houses from the rain! That is whats up.



See more at Woostercollective.com, and JR's website.