TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
World Grid- Square World
2008
Matt Bua. Ink, collage, paint, pencil on paper
Matt Bua’s work manifests as installation, drawing, film, video, and performance. His installations take form in large-scale fantastical spaces that redefine and re-imagine found objects and sustainable resources as functional elements in architecture. Bua’s drawings, as we see here in Off The Grid, are dense sketches comprised of intricate schematics, notations, and suppositions. About World Grid – Square World, Bua writes, "A drawing that skims the surface of the history of renewable energy usages and how they have been destroyed, forgotten, and scoffed at. Where did Don Quixote get the Idea that the windmills were vicious giants from anyway? How did the Rural Electricfication Act of 1936 go about following in Quixote’s footsteps to further rid the country of these ‘threats.’”