In 2023, the art world celebrated the centenary of Canadian painter and sculptor Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002). To mark this milestone, the Jean-Paul Riopelle Foundation launched numerous projects and events. Among these initiatives, the Foundation commissioned the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University (COHDS) to create a digital oral archive about Riopelle’s life and career. Through a series of 21 interviews, this project seeks to document and transmit Riopelle’s work and legacy through the voices of those who knew him, as well as through creative engagement with these testimonies. To facilitate this engagement, we developed the Tell Me About Riopelle Atlas using the Atlascine platform to visualize and connect these interviews through dynamic maps. In this paper, we “map out” the entire process of representing these interviews, from the selection of interviewees to the identification of themes and places to be mapped, to the use of the atlas to navigate within and between all these interviews. We then examine the impact of this cartographic mediation on the way these memories are represented, deformed and reformed through a series of examples. Ultimately, this engagement with the mapping process compels us to reflect more broadly on the relevance of digital maps to contribute to the preservation, study and transmission of memories of past events, places, and people.