Artist Statement
Since 2002, Will Armstrong has spent twenty weekends per year traveling, racking up 300,000+ miles on his vertebrae on a rotating cast of trusted (though admittedly abused) vehicles, most recently with an Airstream trailer. The road holds countless stories and in his work, you will find them. Tales of out of the way BBQ shops, cheap moteals and barrels of gas paid on questionable credit; stories of roadside dives and the musicians that crawl in and out.
This is the soundtrack of the road; songs and artists are embedded on the towns they made famous. Bob Wills, Johnny Cash and Muddy Waters are as much as an influence as Frank Miller and Thomas Nast. The lines of the road have become indistinguishable from the lines of the pen; just as the subject from location.
