Leah Libow
Artist and Coach

Leah Libow

• http://leahlibow.net

I am a visual/performance artist, writer, and dancer/mover living in the heart of the art distirct in Seattle, WA

I am also a Midwife (of sorts). I do not deliver babies, but instead through engaging with womyn in groups and one-on-one, I assist in the birth of their female intution and memory. By working with various objects and materials and with engaged writing and story telling, by exploring lineage (Motherline), and accessing memory via breath, authentic movement, and stillness, I help womyn reconnect to their inherent power and wisdom.

Artist Statement

Using my body as both object and source, I...[more]

I am a visual/performance artist, writer, and dancer/mover living in the heart of the art distirct in Seattle, WA

I am also a Midwife (of sorts). I do not deliver babies, but instead through engaging with womyn in groups and one-on-one, I assist in the birth of their female intution and memory. By working with various objects and materials and with engaged writing and story telling, by exploring lineage (Motherline), and accessing memory via breath, authentic movement, and stillness, I help womyn reconnect to their inherent power and wisdom.

Artist Statement

Using my body as both object and source, I uncover and reveal the power and force of the Archetypal Feminine. I map both the personal and cultural unconscious, which ultimately become a model of female experience that begins with relationship to lineage and history, eventually moving beyond them and returning to a sensual relationship with the earth.

In my work, I explore the erotic root of the feminine, which moves beyond cultural ideas of sensuality as sex and instead focuses on the body and its interaction with the sensual world. I use the tension between the private world - where all women are connected with the erotic and sensual via their body's cycles - and the public world where women are tied to a history that is not theirs.

Where thread in the hands of a woman invokes 'traditional women's craft', thread in my hands becomes the Feminine literally performing the female body as a way of actualizing itself in the physical world.

As an artist, I believe that the act of creation is a performance, which brings forth the essence of each of the materials that pass through my hands. The performative interaction between my body and the cloth, needle and thread, and miscellaneous 'feminine' objects, allows them to reveal their deepest secrets.

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