The background is derived from a separate photograph depicting Carrera, a prison island off the coast of Trinidad a country where the artist lived for a short time as a child. The source for the figure in this painting is taken from the cover of the 1972 album Duane Allman: An Anthology, which included a photograph of the band’s bassist sitting in a canoe. Whilst the image of the canoe – a recurring motif in Doig’s paintings – has associations with his upbringing in Canada, the artist recalls that he was first inspired to include it in his work after watching the horror film Friday the 13th. ![]() ![]() In some areas, the paint has been left to run down the canvas. Is this the place from where the man has travelled? Was he put adrift? The eerie, spectral feeling of the composition is enhanced by the artist’s application of thin washes of paint. The sea around him is impossibly still, the sky a vivid pink. In a canoe sits the ghostly figure of a long-haired, bearded man.
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