Leihua Kamakahi

Void, rhythm, and ritual made visible.

Where ritual becomes design and silence becomes pattern. Raised between Seattle, Washington and Hurricane, Utah, and working from Fairfield, Iowa, she is a poet first, then sculptor, painter, vocalist, and digital artist. A childhood of constant movement led to minimal, abstract methods—contracting into “void spaces” to find structure, breath, and clarity. At Maharishi International University she studied regenerative organic agriculture, biodynamics, meditation, digital media, writing, and art—widening her sense of practice as ecology: inner and outer.

Her cosmology is plural and precise: Chicana, Native Hawaiian, and German; Practicing ancestor veneration; yin–yang balance; Advaita Vedanta; reverence for Oriental Orthodoxy; American folk traditions; and a devotion to the feminine faces of divinity— Divine Mother Mary, Inanna, Santa Muerte, Persephone, Saraswati. She was raised within the Seattle house-music community (De La Creme Sound System; Monkey Loft/SODO; Grooving for Good; all queer-inclusive, B.I.P.O.C. community-forward spaces), which trained her mind for improvisation and the discipline to repeat patterns until the vision lands.

Process: improv → pattern. Vision: lapses in time and memory; unwavering inner sight. Role: co-creating reality—piece by piece, page by page. Musically, she is ½ of Spectral Bloom (Tripolar Waves). Across sculpture, rhymes, beats, oil pastels, painting, and digital media, her work conjures heaven, bliss, acceptance, forgiveness, mercy, compassion—and invites the viewer to breathe awhile before jumping back into the complexity of this reality we find ourselves in.

My father taught me to obey my soul, so I do.

My mother taught me how to be fluid in the strongest, most determined way possible.