THOMAS MACKNAY

Riding Around in Head-Smashed-in Buffalo Jump, 2022

In this artwork I have captured my childhood memories and imaginations, reflecting the happy sense of nostalgia I feel when looking back. These memories are poignant as I am in the transitional time of my development. Given this, I wanted to use art as a time capsule to preserve these ephemeral memories into something permanent. To begin with, I illustrated my memories to form a storyboard before using them to create a stop-motion animation. The sequence of clips for the animation was chosen to reflect how memories are often disjointed and incoherent.