leo ariel is best known for their visual poetry and iconographic installation art. Born and raised in Miami, FL, their work focuses on healing, relationships, and culture. Using spanish language and references to Cuban and Dominican cultural/spiritual practices, they reclaim and establish their voice as a nonbinary Caribbean artist. Their installations, writings, and performance are allegorical of growing up as a child of immigrants and surviving abuse in a world that actively works against gender nonconforming people. Line, shape, repetition, and form of their poetry is a means of rejecting rigid notions of writing. Their work is a means of reclamation and grounding of identity, striving to create representation and solidarity to the most marginalized.