Rebecca Fruto's (b.2001) paintings explore reincarnation as a metaphor for remembrance that is influenced by Fotoescultura, a traditional Mexican art form that combines photography and sculpture to memorialize loved ones. She holds a BA in Art from California State University, Bakersfield, where she began reinterpreting personal history and narrative. She collects images that, after rendering them in oils or charcoal, become a closer manifestation of these memories that feel inauthentic with the passage of time. She explores ways to resurface these representations, treating these paintings as the blueprint of memory. Her process involves superimposing a past painting onto its reference image, transferring it onto canvas using HTV transfer paper, and then painting around it to give a renewed softness and clarity to its former life. Her experiences with migration as a means for survival kindled her use of decorative symbols, iridescent materials such as holographic vinyl, and construction materials in her reinterpretations of Fotoescultura.