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The Billboard
Description of "The Billboard" by Jeremy Mangan
“This award means a tremendous amount to me. It not only allows me, but also encourages me, to continue to do what I love. It’s a fantastic compliment and I am very grateful. For some time now I’ve been making images of these precarious and interlocking barns or sheds, often supported by stilts. The piece I created for the Community Foundation is a continuation of this, but with a local element.
The painting, titled The Billboard, shows a seemingly illogical structure of weathered, whitewashed buildings along the entire bottom of the picture plane. A few of the rooftops support a giant “billboard,” on which is painted a weathered mural of, or advertisement for, Mt. Rainier.
To create a piece like this I begin with a line drawing. It’s important to me that the interlocking units of building “work,” that they could fit together in actual space. Once the drawing is finished it’s really just a matter of execution: I lay down a dark wash over the entire structure, which gives me both the darkness of the boards and the seams between them. Next comes the white paint. The seams are incised back in with an etching needle. A blue glaze creates shadows and three-dimensionality. But really this is all just a means to an end. The real process is creating a visually interesting world of questionable logic. And then maybe a useful metaphor about our own logic, motives, and ambitions.”
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