doing. action. verb. l’herbe.

I have been looking at etchings on the Tate website and soon found myself engrossed in Peter Doig’s first print portfolio, which includes Red House. The way he uses trees to interrupt interests me and the silhouetted figures are at my preferred scale. What this brings to mind is people in a gallery looking at paintings, for instance in the Turner hall at Tate Britain, there’s a balcony there where I’ve spent time looking at visitors encountering the artworks. This then reminds me of artists referring to the white cube actors the black box. Then the green room backstage, the dark room, which is actually red in when in use. I digress. What might the Red House represent, if I had to name a function? I would say a place of exchange. This could be of words – of passion – of both, even.
Mixing up imagery of the roadworks with people from the past watching on – like 1900’s images, the figures the scale of Lowry paintings, looking calmly on to the changes we’re making.