purifoy: he came from karamu house.hink calling ourselves community artists harks back to the beginning of art in cleveland at the karamu house, where they were practicing community art for years. community art has a certain belief system. it doesn't believe in art for art's sake. so you can imagine the problem that one would have in an elite community like los angeles with this kind of belief system, and yet we were consistent with our idea. greenfield: noah and curtis thought it would ba good idea to have a permanent structure there, and they had a lot of people working with the original simon rodia's committee, and the center was always supposed to be a temporary structure. it's been temporary now for how many years? it's not even on a foundation. it's on this concrete slab, ok? there's a link between noah purifoy, judson powell, curtis tann, and john outterbridge. jefferson: john outterbridge came out here and became fascinated not only with los angeles and all that was possible with it, but he found friends, and he