Leatha Koefler's artwork intrinsically documents society's transition from analog to digital by combining elements from both eras. Through repurposed analog and early digital objects, it memorializes the once important and meaningful images, data, and narratives once stored on these technologies.
The art she creates from film is more personal. Like her grandmother Ella’s quilts, stitched together from scraps of clothing, each slide or home movie holds a memory of the people who wore the fabric or captured the moment on film. On hot summer afternoons, her family would sit in the shade on those quilts as her mother told stories about the lives stitched into each piece. Inspired by this tradition, she now creates her own quilts and clothing, stitching film and slides together preserving memories in a new form.
