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# A Claymation Moonscape Covered in Ruins
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-claymation-moonscape-covered-in-ruins/
- Published: 2016-06-03T23:20:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:29:18.000Z
- Description: Animated by Meghan Tryon, psych-rock band Wand's new "Passage of the Dream" video fuses claymation with line drawings and paper cutouts in a densely detailed fantasy narrative.
- Author: Carey Dunne
- Tags: Art, Music Videos, Review, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

![cTx2vkL - Imgur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/06/ctx2vkl-imgur.gif)

Wand, clip from video for “A Passage of the Dream” (2016), animated by Meghan Tryon (All GIFs by the author for Hyperallergic)

A girl rides a bus over a dead planet covered in skulls, boulders, and eroded columns in psych-rock band Wand’s new video for “Passage of the Dream.” Animated by [Meghan Tryon](http://meghantryon.odie.us/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the video fuses claymation with line drawings and paper cutouts in a densely detailed fantasy narrative.

It’s quietly post-apocalyptic, heavy on grays, whites, and blacks. Textured claymation beautifully visualizes entropy and evolution: Columns topple, marbled blobs morph into little aliens, clay men shed skin.

![mz2GKtt - Imgur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/06/mz2gktt-imgur.gif)

Ennui everywhere. Our lives are just rolls of the die.

![pO2RXHd - Imgur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/06/po2rxhd-imgur.gif)

We’re all just flickering candles waiting to be snuffed out.

![EO178T5 - Imgur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/06/eo178t5-imgur.gif)

Shed your skin.

*“Passage of the Dream” is off Wand’s recent album* [*1000 Days*](http://www.stereogum.com/1831618/stream-wand-1000-days/mp3s/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*, out on* [*Drag City*](http://www.dragcity.com/products/1000-days?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*