Distant Line

As partners, Lijun Chao and Andy Holliday work together under the name Chao Holliday Art to explore collaborative models through drawing and printmaking.  “Distant Line” explores boundaries, distance, and place. Borders serve as transitional spaces that separate and define distinct realities and ensure there is always an "other side." Crossing these boundaries has inherent costs such as energy, connection, time, and closeness. The other side embodies everything that our current location is not. It exists tangibly but also as an imagined ideal that is both perfect and frightening, holding our hopes and anxieties, aspirations and nostalgia. The other side also signifies memory, loss, and longing. For some, it represents home.