Artist Asks: 'What Do You Want to Accomplish Before You Die?'

In the midst of New Orleans still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, Candy Chang channelled her frustration and pain into building a wall. Unlike most walls, this one wasn't meant to keep people apart, but to bring them closer than ever.

Chang, an artist and designer known for thought-provoking, interactive installations, has been preoccupied with the idea of death since her mother passed away when she was 15. In 2011, Chang repurposed a wall of a dilapidated house to ask the simple question: What do you want to accomplish before you die?

With the aid of some fellow artists and volunteers, she coated the wall with chalkboard paint. They neatly stenciled the words "Before I die I want to _______" in eight rows of 10, then bolted cups of chalk to the wall. Read more...