newshour weekend's ivette feliciano spoke with artist coby kennedy about his exhibit. >> reporter: in piece,“ kalief bwder: the box," at brooklyn new york's pioneer works, artist coby kennedy created an 8x10x6-feetculpture that replicates the exact dimensions of a solitary confinement cell on new york city's rikers island. the glass surfaces are etched with line renderings of the bed, barred window, and toilet, along with text. >> sandblasted on the side of the piece here is "kalief browr was kidnapped off the street by police, taken away from his mother, family, friends, held for over 1,000 days on rikers island for a crime he did not commit, and was physically and mentally tortured by being locked in a solitary box for over 700 of those days, 23 hours a day." >> reporter: when kennedy firs learned about browder's story through news reports, he says he felt incapacitated for days. >> it hit me so hard because i feel a real person connection to it, because what he made it through and what he endured has been one of my worst nightmares ever since i was a child. to be held in that way,