The Heartland is the land that belongs only to you. Here, no one can look in or eavesdrop. In the Heartland, dreams and fantasy meet, past and future. Here, everything is possible. Past, experienced, imagined - they play with each other.

Memory and the forgotten blur, a premonition of the unknown arises.

Perhaps everything is completely different? Have I not seen the most important thing at all? Why can’t my hand paint, what my idea conceives in the realm of dreams?

But in the Heartland you can try again and again.

In the Heartland, art is free. Untamed, senseless, valuable - whether it touches the heart, it decides alone.

The Heartland is the borderland of experience and fantasy, where my paintings live.

Hans Heiner Buhr, October 2024