I'm interested in how we identify ourselves publicly, how we illustrate ourselves physically (by building churches, monuments, graveyards and gardens), and in turn I'm still fascinatedby making objects - objects that speak in our absence.»
Buer is fascinatedby the living histories of absence, and by the poetic solitude of remnants; these buildings, once brimming with purpose and commercial enterprise remain untenanted reminders of human desertion and waste.