Gabrielle Marie Luo

My work is a spiritual practice—an act of deep listening and co-creation with the living earth. Rooted in myth, ritual, and Indigenous wisdom, I weave together natural materials and intuitive gestures to honor the unseen forces that shape our world. Through weaving, painting, poetry and ephemeral installations, I collaborate with the land, incorporating branches, fibers, pigments, and found textures, inviting nature to co-create. Each piece becomes a sacred offering, a witness to the reciprocity between human consciousness and the ensouled earth.

Guided by ceremonial traditions and archetypal storytelling, my creative process is an embodied ritual—one that acknowledges the presence of spirit within matter. Weaving is an awareness of exchange, a dialogue between the elements, where opposites merge to reveal new forms. My work exists in a liminal space, where nature and psyche intertwine, evoking transformation, impermanence, and the sacred rhythms of existence.

By integrating ancient spiritual traditions with contemporary artistic inquiry, I seek to reimagine art as more than an object—it is a living, breathing vessel of connection. To create is to respond, to enter into an ongoing conversation with the land and the cosmos. My work is an invitation to witness the mysteries of the natural world and the stories it continues to unfold.

Gabrielle is a PhD student in Art and Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA. Her work explores the intersections of creativity, cyclical living, and human-nature connection. Since 2012, she has taught art-based workshops that cultivate inner awareness and has collaborated with traditional artisans in Guatemala to preserve and celebrate indigenous ways of co-creating with the natural world. Her research bridges menstrual awareness, the lunar cycle, the creative process, offering tools and teachings that invite women to reconnect with their bodies and the living Earth.

My art can be found in galleries, homes, restaurants, healing spaces, intentional communities and offices. They can be intimate or expansive, offer abundance, protection, or introspection. I believe this inner dialogue can lead to deep introspective processing and clarification in one’s life. Inner and outer harmony reverberate from this place of creating and reflecting.

I also available for custom work— I love to create pieces that have a specific intention with places in nature that are meaningful to you.