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

LATEST NEWS!

• Matt Bua works 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.”

After thirteen years, this work – forever a work in progress - is being prepared to serve as an educational destination location for any students, artists, families, and others interested in learning the art of intuitive building while also having retreats, studying living off the grid, and talking about/with indigenous stone work.

“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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