In her work Revolutions in Time, Martina Lopez reintroduces old family photographs by placing them within alternative, fabricated backgrounds. Of her process, Lopez writes:

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"By extracting people from their original context and then placing them into fabricated landscapes, I hope to retell a story of their being, one which allows the images to acquire a life of their own. While the pieces from photographs verify an actual lived experience, the landscape stands as my metaphor for life, demarcating its quality, where the horizon suggests an endless time."

 

Inspired by Lopez’s work, my collage series, Forget-me-not: a song to all of the places we could have enjoyed together, reimagines personal archival family photographs within the context of alternative Instagram feed backgrounds. This juxtaposition transforms these photographs, offering them a new narrative space—one that navigates the tension between the ephemeral nature of social media and the permanence of personal memory.

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This self-reflexive work explores the longing for an alternative space where the opposing worlds of public and private, social and personal, and past and present can merge. By integrating these dichotomies, Forget-me-not creates a dialogue between memory and imagination, challenging the boundaries of how we commemorate and reinterpret the moments we could have shared.