
© 2025 Chris Leibow — Salt Lake City artist and poet.
Surreal collage, botanical surrealism, mixed media, and visual poetry.
Explore his poetry at Chris Leibow Studio
In this work, the body and the bloom are not separate forms but shared expressions of life’s intimacy. The figure reclines into the iris as if returning to the source — a gesture of surrender, belonging, and renewal. The image invites us to see eros not merely as desire between bodies, but as the deeper current that connects all living things. Here, sensuality becomes ecological: to touch the flower is to touch the earth itself, to remember that our flesh and nature