Our world is better for having the Wooster Collective in it:
‘After more than a year of planning, 2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera. 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.’
Kibera is one of the largest slums in the world, filled with marginalized, forgotten people. JR is a fabulous street artist, check out his site: those faces will shake you up.
Comments
Now that is poetry in motion.
Wow….that is amazing!
I am constantly blown away at the ingenuity of some people, and this is just amazingly creative.
holy crap, that is awesome. Art that literally makes people’s lives measurably better.
Visual art that is also useful.
Thanks for bringing this into my view! I seemed to have completely missed any word of this…
It’s fabulous.
I have an award waiting for you over at my place.