The House That Herman Built

My daughter-in-law, Ellen, has just started a new job at the Palo Alto Art Center, and today we had a chance to see their new exhibit, combining elements of art and architecture...including such fascinating works as Randy Dixon's Dream House series and models of the Jellyfish House and the Camel Back Shotgun Sponge Garden.
Probably the most interesting exhibit was culled from the imagination of a man who has spent more than thirty years in a six by nine foot box. An audio, based on his letters is read, as details flash on the screen of a yellow kitchen with solid pecan cabinets and a basket of biscuits on the counter, a pantry with Tabasco, potatoes and onions, a workshop to tinker with appliances, and flowers in the garden, all year 'round.
For over thirty-five years Herman Joshua Wallace has been in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Solitary Confinement, or Closed Cell Restriction (CCR) at Angola consists of spending a minimum of 23 hours a day in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell. Five years ago the activist/artist Jackie Sumell asked Herman a very simple question:
"What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6' x9' box for over thirty years dream of?"
The answer to this question has manifested in a remarkable project called THE HOUSE THAT HERMAN BUILT.