“Polaroid” 2009

Dimensions: 40” x 90”

Medium: Oil on canvas

Artist: Greg Busch

A woman is floating in the pool, arms stretched along the ledge, body loose, eyes somewhere else. Across the patio, a man kneels with a Polaroid camera, trying to freeze something — a moment, a memory, maybe just the illusion that everything’s still okay.

The house is pristine. The light is soft. Palm trees silhouette a fading sky. But Polaroid isn’t about the architecture. It’s about the distance that builds in beautiful places. About love that once felt warm, now drifting like chlorine vapor through a glass shell.

Inside, the house holds pieces of their world — pop art, soft furniture, the spiral of a staircase they might have once danced down. It’s all still there. But they’re no longer in the same frame. He watches. She floats. They’re close, but untouchable.

Busch doesn’t force the story. He just gives us the stillness. The quiet tension. The attempt to capture something real, even if it’s already gone.