JR’s limited edition print Los Surcos de la Ciudad, Marino Saura Oton, Cartagena, Espagne (2008) forms part of The Wrinkles of the City, an ambitious global project that began in 2008 and spans cities such as Cartagena, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Havana. In this series, JR collaborated with elderly residents whose faces bear the marks of time, pairing their portraits with the worn textures of urban walls. In this lithograph, the face of Marino Saura Oton—one of Cartagena’s oldest inhabitants and a witness to the Spanish Civil War—appears wheat-pasted onto a crumbling façade, blending human memory with the scars of the city itself.

The result is a moving meditation on resilience, aging, and collective history. By merging photography, architecture, and printmaking, JR transforms public space into a canvas for social reflection. This limited edition print, hand-signed and numbered, embodies the artist’s ongoing dialogue between people and place, illustrating how contemporary art editions can preserve the emotional and physical imprints of time.