Artist Candy Chang has launched a public art project inviting passers by to chalk their own ending to the sentence: “Before I die I want to …” on a disused building in New Orleans that has been transformed into a giant chalkboard. “Before I Die” started life as part of an exhibition called Freeriding, by Subtext Projects in a gallery before taking to the streets. Chang selected a large, boarded-up corner building in New Orleans to transform into an enormous blackboard.
She told Wired.co.uk in an e-mail interview: “I bike by this blighted house all the time and I wanted to a nicer spacemake for my neighborhood. The messages you see in public space right now are mostly advertisements.
Chang is a 2011 TED Senior Fellow who has had a broad career involving founding a record label, working on community urban-design projects, being an art director at The New York Times, as well as a working as a design researcher at Nokia and an electro DJ.
You can check out some of the responses that have been documented. Chang is currently working on a public installation in Fairbanks, Alaska, in April and one in Turku, Finland, in June.
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