Concrete Cabin 1992

Peter Doig made "Concrete Cabin" with paint, sometime after he was born in 1959. This painterly space is a bit like seeing color for the first time, everything is a big gorgeous stain, marks like memories of what we thought seeing was. The palette is a tonal riot of darks, punctuated with these uncanny pads of pale green and hits of white, like corrective marks. Look at the way Doig handles the paint, smearing and blurring the boundaries between forms, so that the concrete cabin feels like a half-remembered dream glimpsed through a veil of foliage. It makes you want to be swallowed up by this weird and wonderful twilight place. For me, "Concrete Cabin" conjures up the spirit of late Guston, but with a psychedelic twist. It's a reminder that painting is an ongoing conversation, a constant questioning and re-imagining of what it means to see and feel the world around us.