Before I Die: Downtown Detroit Display Offers Chance To Share Life Goals
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - An interactive art display in downtown Detroit is offering people a chance to share their life goals.
Bedrock Real Estate Services has erected a streetscape chalkboard that stretches along the facade of an empty building at 1550 Woodward. The display has lines that begin with "Before I die I want to" followed by empty lines.
People can write their thoughts in chalk -- and the lines have filled up quickly.
What's on your bucket list? What must you do before you die? 1550
— Robin Schwartz (@RobinSchwartzPR) July 27, 2015
Woodward #Detroit #BeforeIDie #BeforeIDieDET pic.twitter.com/5En3gTbKSt
What do you want to do before you die? http://t.co/ACW1g3VbYn #BeforeIDieDET #Detroit #BeforeIDie @BeforeIdiewall pic.twitter.com/o7fqEsZqY7
— Blocal Detroit (@BLocalDetroit) July 28, 2015
The @BedrockRES building on Woodward in #Detroit with people's sincere hopes of doing things "#BeforeIDie"LIVE 7:30am pic.twitter.com/VZ5ECXmetQ
— Roop Raj (@rooprajfox2) July 29, 2015
Some of the great messages on the chalk streetscape on Woodward in #Detroit. The theme #BeforeIDie pic.twitter.com/mUnL8SaBxf
— Roop Raj (@rooprajfox2) July 29, 2015
Artist Candy Chang created the first such wall on an abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood in 2011 and hundreds of similar walls have gone up around the world. A similar display was erected earlier this year in the western Michigan city of Grand Haven.
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