Windows is part of LOOKING, an on-going series at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, which features Pittsburgh artists’ work through their respective windows while sheltering in place. Buba’s work is an obsession with the coronavirus because of his age. “The thought of dying before finishing another Braddock film and a film about my family is frightening. Why, I am not sure.”
“I have been obsessed with the coronavirus outbreak. Some of the obsession is because of my age. I am 76 and I will be 77 in October. People in my age group have extraordinarily little chance of survival even without having been subjected to breathing the polluted Mon Valley air their whole life. The thought of dying before finishing another Braddock film and a film about my family is frightening. Why, I am not sure. The formula for the pieces are: each one is 4490 frames which is the amount of death in Pennsylvania when I finished the three pieces. ” – Tony Buba
