Artist wraps women's eyes around old heart of ParisA young French artist who views women as heroes and wants to build bridges for humanity has wrapped the heart of the capital in giant pairs of eyes from around the world. The 27-year-old known only as JR has pasted giant posters of women's eyes around the Saint-Louis island on the Seine river Seine River ancient Sequana Second longest river in France. It rises on the Langres plateau, 18 mi (30 km) northwest of Dijon, and flows through Paris before emptying into the English Channel at Le Havre after a course of 485 mi (780 km). as well as on central Paris bridges and the banks of the Seine Seine (sān, Fr. sĕn), Lat. Sequana, river, c.480 mi (770 km) long, rising in the Langres Plateau and flowing generally NW through N France. . The eyes, taken from portraits of women he shot in Brazil, Cambodia and Sierra Leone Sierra Leone (sēĕr`ə lēō`nē, lēōn`; sēr`ə lēōn), officially Republic of Sierra Leone, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,018,000), 27,699 sq mi (71,740 sq km), W Africa. , are part of an open-air exhibition titled "Women Are Heroes" due to last until November 2, depending on the rain and the wind. Plastered on Paris' old stone walls, the six-metre-high (yard) images of people living in the world's most difficult places "show the power of women," he says. In previous exhibitions, JR has pasted giant-format portraits of poor Brazilian women on the walls of a favela favela In Brazil, a slum or shantytown. A favela comes into being when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials. , images of Kenyan shanty-town women on the roofs of trains, as well as organising similar shows in Cambodia and India. "I'm trying to create a bridge between people here and the everyday life of people living in the shadow of conflict," he told the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. in an interview. "Eyes are powerful," he said. "When people see me pasting up these portraits they want to know who the women are, how they live." 
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