Justice
Confessions From Sin City
Private fears of unrequited love, heartbreak, and dying alone are put on display for all to see.
In a city that's spent years successfully branding itself as the place where people go to keep secrets, Candy Chang’s proposal was totally novel. She wanted instead to ask everyone in Vegas – or at least in the Cosmopolitan Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip – what they had to confess.
Chang has made a name for herself as an artist by inviting communities to voice their hopes and ideas (and monthly rent payments) on shared public canvasses. You may know her work from the Post-it-sized “I wish this was…” campaign in New Orleans, or from this massive community blackboard enticing passersby to chalk in the blank “Before I die I want to ______.” Her projects, Chang says, are like "self-help in public space."