This collaboration was crucial: under Watanabe's direction
Perfect impression taken from the artist's book published in 1966 for the Jolas Gallery
The book illustrates views of locations and travelers along the Tōkaidō road
with untrimmed margins all around
creating a vibrant contrast with the sky
JR, The ballerina jumping in containers, Le Havre, France, 2014 sculture This collaboration was crucial: underPerfect impression, printed on Voirin and Marinoni flatbed machines in a total of 250 copies on White paper BFK Rives 250 grams from Idem Paris. Perfect preservation, uncut margins. Dry stamp of the artist in the lower right and of the printer in the lower left. In July 2014, JR completes the project Women are Heroes at the port of Le Havre. He pastes the eyes of a woman on Le Magellan, a 363 meter long container ship, for a journey around the world.