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.
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