One of the many charming men I have in my life brightened my day on Monday by alerting me to a rather spectacular community initiative. Before I Die is the work of Candy Chang, a public installation artist who has a strong social conscience and a desire to make her community a more livable place. Essentially, she's used a stencil to create an enormous blackboard on which people create a collective list documenting their hopes for their lives.
Her words to describe her work are thus:
"Before I Die transforms neglected spaces into constructive ones where we can learn the hopes and aspirations of the people around us."
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After
Once the board is full she documents the responses and wipes it clean. On the website they mention the possibility of collating them into a book.
Not only does this project help to clean up the community appearance, it brings people together and gets them thinking about what's really important to them. It's an exercise in refocusing and as a supporter of all things "social change" and "positive psychology", I think it's marvelous.
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2 comments:
Very interesting.
I think "before I die" I want to see no more violence in my country.
Kiss
There are many things that I want to do but the problem is that there are always things that you can't do before you die.
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