"Best thing since sliced bread, Time Will Tell
Triptych, Oil on recycled galvanized billboard panels, 9.5'x5' each
"Time" 9'6"x5' Oil on recycled galvanized billboard panels.
"Will" 9'6"x5' Oil on recycled galvanized billboard panels.
"Tell" 9'6"x5' Oil on recycled galvanized billboard panels.
These pieces, collectively titled, are the confluence of several experiences; my years as a sign and billboard artist, the recent losses of my brother and my mentor, and the recent political climate. I’ve come to a general realization that time moves on leaving fragments and pieces of memory and experience that communicate in messages we may not be aware of on the surface. Billboards, like memory, were recycled and repainted with no regard to what lies underneath. From this, I noticed an abstract communication arise, often not in any order, forming interesting shapes and images left behind by the different pieces of the previous ads. Over the years, while painting over old ads on billboards outside, I might come across layout lines of a painter, different styles or techniques that I hadn’t seen before laid down 5-10 years prior. The current work started to take shape while exploring this “puzzle” or “layering” type of communication. These small billboards are “mash-ups” of images and lettering similar to the layering I encountered while working on billboards. There is a history, a process, and layers intentionally left for the viewer to discover, creating a visual time capsule of what came before.
Always start with a little brainstorming
Preliminary Photoshop "sketches"
Images submitted for ArtFields proposal
Accepted as a 2017 ArtFields Artist
Let the painting begin! Painting one in the triptych "Time"
Painting #2 "Will"
Painting # 3 "Will"
Start building the structures
Prefabbed and tested all structures and pieces before the trip to Lake City to install.
Installation day is here.
