The book “Line of demarcation” is the territory of “reconciliation” of the two positions of Vlada Ralko and Vladimir Budnikov. This book is, to some extent, a scholarly work in which words are reviewed and terms are defined, taking into account important conceptual adjustments. Working on a book presenting the works on paper by Vladimir Budnikov and Vlada Ralko for a three-year period, the authors tried to avoid a clear distribution of content on the series, but made up a whole story. This book is about memory, about loss, about change, about distribution, about the important. About how the line of demarcation is able to create new meanings, emphasize the main thing, make familiar things expressive. About the intuitive vision of the artist, about love for his people. In these books, everything became an artistic object — words, things that those words describe, meanings.