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

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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