The Humble Weed
VOLUME 1
As we study the fallen sagebrush, we are in awe of nature’s structural ingenuity. Every branch serves the whole. Every curve is a record of how it grew, how it moved, what it survived. There is more architecture in this single dried form than in most things made by human hands.
We kept it.
Dormant sage brush mono lake, California. Photo: Krislyn Komarov
There is a plant that grows at the edge of things. In vacant lots and along highway shoulders, in the dry creek beds of the California hills. It lives its whole life unnoticed with the exception of the local fauna — and then one day it lets go of the ground, rolls away, and becomes something else entirely.
We found ours on a roadside. James picked it up the way he picks everything up — turning it over, feeling the weight of it. In studio, Krislyn and James are asking what it was before and what it might be next. Beautiful botanical specimens can often be overlooked. Yard waste, fallen pine needles, dislodged sagebrush -things dismissed because they are everywhere. At KEPT we collect and reframe what we’re looking at.
We are drawn to the things most people step over. The dried fern that lost its green and became something almost mineral. The grass that bleached in the heat until it looked like it had been cast in pale metal. These are not lesser versions of themselves. They are different things worth looking at on their own terms.
WEEDS AND SKY, LONDON, UK. Photo: Krislyn Komarov
Preserved Brugmansia Flower Forms
Steeped in ancient lore, Brugmansia is believed to be a bridge, a connection to the realm of spirit. A platform by which to communicate with the ancestors, to seek guidance, to expand one's vision.
With reverence and with care, we hand-dip each blossom in wax, conserving its fragile beauty, preserving that which has been held sacred, continuing the ritual.
— Kept Workshop Los Angeles
Baby's Breath and sagebrush installed at a beautiful Spanish-style estate in Los Angeles, blending with the surrounding spaces while standing out in volume and elegance. May 2026
Every fallen leaf, cut tree branch and naturally decomposing vine has a new story waiting to be written.
-Krislyn Komarov, KEPT LA
Some things are worth keeping.— The Edit, Vol. 1