b-home Build and Matt Bua:

inspired and repurposed

systems for creating a more empowering world

Welcome to my world at b-home build. I’m Matt Bua, artist and intuitive builder. My studio has slowly become a sculpture park experience called b-home and I’ve just now begun a new, small, company called b-home Build which is designed to help support my work at the art park and beyond. I’m in love with everything about the natural world. What is the splendor and bounty that She provides? How do we recreate with Her? What is the trick of intuitively putting the debris of our modern civilization to use, finally, after all these ages of destruction? How can we begin solving our problems in the most efficient and harmonic way? These are the questions that act as my compass. It is these issues that are of prime importance to me and are my highest aspirations.

- Matt Bua, Artist/Owner, b-home Build

IT”S ALL CONNECTED….Opening Reception: Friday, November 7, 2025 5-8 pm- til Nov 30th- Citiot

Artist Talk- Saturday Nov 15th - 3 pm Talking Walls- Tenth Anniversary Edition Release!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Universe's Last Secret Solved? A Groundbreaking Exhibition Invites the Public to Decide for Themselves on the "Theory of Everything"

CATSKILL, NY – October 31, 2025 – For nearly a century, the scientific community has grappled with the elusive Unified Field Theory, the so-called "Holy Grail" of physics. While physicists debate the non-renormalizable nature of combining gravity with strong electroweak interactions, one new exhibition at the Citiot gallery in Catskill is cutting through the complex equations and inviting the public to solve this monumental problem with a simple act of personal conviction.

It's All Connected, a new show by artist Matt Bua, opens on Friday, November 7th, at the Citiot cultural hub, presenting a unique, philosophical, and whimsical challenge: Can the profound question of universal connectivity be solved simply by asking individuals to decide for themselves?

The exhibition posits that the inability to reconcile General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics is not an insurmountable scientific hurdle, but rather a matter of perspective that can be overcome through a collective shift in human consciousness. Drawing on the "butterfly effect" and Einstein's own discomfort with "spooky action at a distance," Bua’s show suggests that by a simple, shared acknowledgement—a nod of "yes" to the phrase "It's all connected"—humanity can finally "flap its wings" and bring everything together in the most "sane whole-istic way (un)imaginable."

"The incompatibility of the two theories remains an outstanding problem in the field of physics—until now," Bua states. "This supposedly last problem for humanity to 'solve,' the theory of EVERYTHING, will be solved on Nov 7th. There will not be any gigantic equations. It will be done simply by each and every one of us either silently or out loud saying 'It’s ALL connected' and giving a nod 'yes'."

The exhibit itself is rich with local Catskill lore and synchronistic moments that reinforce the "all connected" theme. The story of two Dutch entrepreneurs (Pim and Gert) purchasing a giant chainsaw-carved sculpture of Rip Van Winkle down in Brooklyn NY—created by master Hal Macintosh of Round Top NY—and unknowingly setting up their "Citiot" hub down the road from another Macintosh Rip sculpture serves as a physical metaphor for the serendipitous nature of connected events.

From cat-eyed logos and local billboard messages ("It's just a matter of time"/ J.A.M.O.T.) to the etymology of the Catskill name itself, the exhibition weaves a narrative that challenges the viewer to embrace a unified reality where division is the only true "lie." Also- the book- Talking Walls is turning 10–and we will be releasing a new edition.

The show's core philosophical question for all attendees: "What is the thing no one can ever deny?"

Whether you are a seasoned physicist or simply someone who has felt the mysterious pull of synchronicity, It's All Connected invites you to participate in a profound experiment to bridge the gap between science and philosophy, logic and intuition.

EVENT DETAILS:

Opening Reception: Friday, November 7, 2025 5-8 pm- til Nov 30th-

Artist Talk- Saturday Nov 15th - 3 pm

Location: Citiot Gallery, Catskill, NY 404 main st. Catskill NY 12414

With a Talking Walls- Tenth Anniversary Edition Release!

Media Contact:

Pim Zeegers Co- founder of Citiot Email: info@nycitiot.com

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• Matt Bua worked with Jon Picco and crew to redesign the most nature loving, elegant and inspiring get away in the Catskills.

Matt Bua makes small scale improvised buildings, hand-built people's museums and roadside attractions.

His recent work takes the form of mystical spaces that redefine and re-imagine found objects - and sustainable resources - as functional elements in his building process.

Over the last ten years, Bua has created multiple public spaces in his home town of Catskill, NY - including the Catamount Peoples’ Museum, the WGXC Studio in the Catskill Community Center, The Young Peoples’ Museum, the Open-Air Classroom, the Art of Play- Play Space, The Awakened Rip Sculpture, and the Camp Now Holiday Pop-Up.

In addition, he has been hard at work creating a fantastical sculpture park in the woods. Bua’s mythical repurposed city, b-home, is a collaborative construction of small scale vernacular, experimental, and visionary architecture samples located on a piece of land in Catskill, NY. This large span of work is an art studio with a sculpture park. It contains lithic remains from cultures of the past and, at the heart of the wooded world, stands strong, a hand built cabin in which Bua lived as he came to write the ground breaking book “Talking Walls: Casting Out the Post-Contact Stone-Wall-Building Myth.”

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“What if all potential building materials discarded in the trash could be utilized for the creation of new public spaces? What if a person’s personal collection, that accumulation of stuff that is so often hidden away, could be brought out into the open, displayed and viewed by others for the first time? People work too hard to obtain and maintain their super-sized lifestyles, while the really precious things in their lives are too often forgotten. It is that stuff — having grown old and having become clutter—that needs to be recycled into something new, something revealed, something useful. From that purged material may be built a structure that serves as both portraiture and shelter” -m.b.

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“Much contemporary work, especially if it includes imagery, features a personal, intuitive, and frequently obscure system of iconography. But obscurity, a quality that can be applied to oeuvres as diverse as the philosophical drawings of Maria Bussmann, the anarchic installations of Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua, the dreamlike films of Catherine Sullivan and the fantastical animations of the Quay Brothers—carries its own set of demands. With these artists we sense that their often-arcane imagery is grounded in varying degrees of intellectual inquiry and life experience.” excerpt from GREATER NEW YORK By Thomas Micchelli