Leatha Koefler’s studio practice centers on working with found materials. She builds sculptures and wall art from outdated technologies such as slides, VHS tapes, film, floppy disks, and other similar media.
The art she creates from film is deeply personal. Her great-grandmother Ella’s quilts—stitched together from scraps of clothing—carry the memory of the people who once wore those fabrics. Inspired by this tradition, Koefler now creates her own quilts and garments as art pieces, stitching together film and slides to preserve memories in a new visual form.
Koefler’s work inherently documents society’s transition from analog to digital. By combining elements from both eras, her art memorializes the once-significant images, data, and narratives stored on these obsolete technologies, transforming them into contemporary reflections of memory and change.
