My recent installations deal with living environments, particularly shot-gun houses.   Why the shotgun house?   First, ever since I saw shotgun houses while visiting New Orleans as a child, their narrow proportions have fascinated me.   Second, it is a very essential architectural form to work with.   Third, it is a form that for me visually and viscerally connects New Orleans, the Caribbean, West Africa, South Africa and other places of the African Diaspora.   The memories it conjures are historical and personal.