JR

I'll paint the picture.

December 6th, many years ago, middle of Soho, snowstorm, alley with J.R. the Artist posting life-size or six-by-eight headshots of each other in an alley, posting them drinking out of brown bag beers.

Like hot toddy? Hot toddies

out of the alley and having J.R., the artist who's famous and world renowned, be there with us talking about, is it comfortable or not comfortable having you that public facing? And here we are in an alley drinking hot toddies out of a brown paper bag with

snow coming down.

And the passerbys are like, what the heck is going on?

of knowledge and memory.

This is a story about art and building bridges, as the creator of the installation, French artist JR, explained.

He

linked this idea to the title Pontifex, meaning bridge builder, a term traditionally associated with the Pope.

And it involves three quite interesting people.

One French artist called J.R., Jean René, who's a street artist who began in Paris and kept putting up big posters on the streets and et cetera.

The second is an American typographer called Bill Moran.

And the third one is the most famous Italian cook of our day.