“Distance”

Dimensions: 68” x 62”

Medium: Oil on canvas and lace fabric

Artist: Greg Busch

In Distance, Greg Busch merges grandeur with grief, nostalgia with ornament. A lone car faces the Taj Mahal—a monument to eternal love—yet remains parked, paused, distant. The viewer becomes a witness to longing itself.

The lace fabric adds a veil of memory, softening the monument’s edges with domesticity and delicacy. It’s not just an architectural marvel—it’s a feeling, a ghost, a symbol suspended in time. The opulence of the backdrop is undercut by the quiet melancholy of not quite arriving.

Busch is not just painting distance in space, but in emotion—between memory and reality, romance and solitude. The lace is not decorative; it’s the invisible barrier between what we want and what we reach.