STATEMENT BY MALCOLM R. BUCKNALL

I am interested in themes of innocence and wonder, hope and vulnerability. Through precise renditions of ancestors, progeny, and enchantments that never were, I ask the viewer to “Remember when?” and to join in “Let’s pretend.” I look to delineate states of being and states of mind common to us all. There are narratives, recollections of goofy love, goosebumpy alarm, and magicked projections into other places and other bodies.