After the murder of Ingrid Escamilla, authorities in charge of her investigation leaked extremely graphic photos of her death that went viral. In an effort to control and dignify the internet search results for her name, twitter users spammed social media with photos of nature, flowers, illustrations of Ingrid and photoshopped images of her in beautiful places. I think it’s very powerful how people are collectively altering metadata that was dehumanizing her, and turned it into a colorful, digital memorial to honour her life instead.
“That when someone searches for the name of Ingrid Escamilla find beautiful images that honor his memory and that honor the life of his family.”
“When they look for your name, we need your face to appear, not what they did with you».
“I give Ingrid Escamilla [a photo of] one of the first sunrises of the year in my favorite place. I also studied tourism, I can imagine how far your imagination could have traveled, and if someday someone looks for your name this is how they will find you».
«Pet friendly. The only thing we should know about you (cited from her bio)».
An interesting text about the theory of online memorial culture: here.
A text about Deleuze and Memorial Culture: here.
Maxim Zaragoza 