Sage Kosmala - Artist

My work focuses on family history and cross-generational craft traditions; it combines traditional methods of craft making with discarded waste in order to explore an alternative way of interacting with the home and urban spaces without a nuclear lens.

The art pieces I create range from the context of the street to the home, often focusing on the remnants of familial practices and the rituals needed for an object to be of use.  My work takes on various forms with the intention to draw in the viewer as participants in the experience and create new thoughts around what humans leave behind. 

I am interested in the varying relationships between craft, construction, homebuilding, people, and fine art. My work can either be a multi-layered installation or a piece designed to be displayed within the home. While I use a variety of materials across each project, my methodology  and construction process is consistent. Quilts and textures which use garment construction methods come together to create dynamic and newly reimagined ways of considering textiles from the home which both showcase and imply the leftovers of everyday life.

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