Before I Die is the latest and perhaps greatest public art project by artist and urban planner Candy Chang. In 'Before I Die' she has painted a huge abandoned house in Nola, New Orleans into public chalk board, which invites the public to write down their ambitions for the world to see. Local residents have finished the lines with their life-long dreams and hopes. This Before I Die project is an inspired piece of conceptual urban art that really can revive a sense of community, creating a trickle-down effect of communication amongst the residents. Candy Chang’s Before I Die is a superb example of how with just a little money and a lot of imagination we the people could drag ourselves out of the mess we're all in now.
Candy Chang is a public installation artist, designer, and urban planner. She’s the co-founder of Civic Center, an urban design studio where she combines architecture, graphic design, and urban planning. Her parents immigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. and she grew up in the cornfields of Ohio and beyond.
That’s a brilliant project, and mind evoking too.
Hmm…..maybe I would need to fill more than one line since there are still so many things I want.
They say a picture says a thousand words mate
This is magnificant. They should do this somewhere here in boring ‘ole Iowa. It might do some good.
GREAT IDEA, hopefully it keeps people hoping <3
let’s hope so Katie