Claude responded: Rina Lam Goldfield: Forget Me Not takes inspiration from 19th-century friendship albums studied at the New York Public Library — intimate volumes in which youn…Rina Lam Goldfield: Forget Me Not takes inspiration from 19th-century friendship albums studied at the New York Public Library — intimate volumes in which young women recorded poetry, watercolors, and mementos to memorialize companionship. Goldfield translates these albums into oil paintings that memorialized both the albums themselves and her own contemporary friendships, rendering fore-edges, patterned envelope interiors, and gestural scrawls in trompe l'oeil while floating decorative forms between viewer and textural backgrounds. One work catalogues the most common phrases from a text thread with a friend, alphabetized. The exhibition proposes friendship not as a secondary relationship but as something closer to Ursula K. Le Guin's "basket stories" — ecological, made of intimate exchanges, margins that become the center story.