The Beginning of Somewhere West of Memory
Every new body of work begins with a single painting and for me that painting is The Last Broadcast.
Over the past several years, my work has shifted through different styles and directions, but I kept finding myself returning to the same images of desert highways, telephone poles, old televisions, motels and static. Things that feel both deeply familiar and also strangely impossible.
Eventually I stopped resisting those recurring symbols and decided to follow their lead. Somewhere West of Memory is my attempt to build a world from those fragments.
These paintings are not meant to illustrate stories as much as to suggest them. They exist somewhere between memory and folklore, between personal history and collective imagination. The American Southwest becomes both a real place and a psychological landscape where forgotten broadcasts, roadside relics, dreams, and ghostly transmissions quietly coexist.
In The Last Broadcast, a lone CRT television continues to glow beneath the vast New Mexico sky. Whether the signal is ending or just beginning is left unanswered.
I've become increasingly interested in images that resist immediate explanation. Rather than telling viewers what a painting means, I hope these works invite them to spend time inside these mysteries and discover their own connections.
This painting marks the beginning of that journey and I am excited to see where it leads next…
XOXO
Lindsay
The Last Broadcast | Lindsay D’Amour Williams | 2026 | 16 × 20in Acrylic on Canvas
