Norman's Skates

 

In the archive in Stirling University there are some of McLaren's letters home. He wrote weekly to his mother back home in Stirling. One of the letters refers to the ice flow moving up and down the Hudson River with the tide. I was in Newburgh (Scotland) the week before I read this letter and the ice flow was in fact doing that exact thing........ There was also a description of Norman skating. It struck me that this was something that would be good to focus in on. I foung these skates of my dads and worked with them.trying to animate them to tell their own story....I need to work on it, but there is the seed of an idea here......