"My work exists in this space of questioning. I create to understand how pain, memory, and perception  ripple across time, light, and consciousness. Art is not only something I make. It is something I enter. A descent. A mirror. A conversation with the unseen. Through my practice, I explore how the personal is never isolated and how the body holds histories that echo far beyond itself. I am deeply influenced by chaos theory and the butterfly effect, the idea that a small action can produce vast and unpredictable consequences. In quantum physics and string theory, this expands into the understanding that everything vibrates and that even the smallest particles are connected through unseen dimensions. I think of this as the butterfly effect of the soul, where a single emotion, memory, or trauma can reverberate across a lifetime and into others. Each mark I make is a signal. Each intuitive decision carries energy that continues beyond the surface. This framework aligns with metaphysical traditions and historical narratives of transformation. Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy remains a central influence, particularly Inferno, where descent becomes the necessary path toward awakening. Dante reminds us that self knowledge is not reached through ascent alone, but through confrontation. Through darkness. Through witnessing what we would rather deny. I see my work as a contemporary continuation of this journey, where the soul navigates not only spiritual realms but psychological, cultural, and bodily ones. Visually and materially, my practice draws from the 1960s hippie blacklight and countercultural movement. In times of political unrest and systemic collapse, artists turned to altered perception as resistance. Under UV light, reality shifted and hidden layers emerged. Blacklight was not a decoration.   It was a revelation. Artists such as Isaac Abrams, Mark Boyle, Joan Hills, and the creators of the Electric Circus understood that illumination could expose what society tried to suppress. I continue this lineage by using UV reactive paint and holographic surfaces as tools of disclosure. My work exists in two states. In natural light, it reflects what is socially visible. Under blacklight, unseen imagery emerges including trauma mappings, nerve pain patterns, symbolic fractures, and memories embedded in the body. This shift mirrors how illness, grief, and identity operate in real life. What we hide does not disappear. It waits. It vibrates. Living with Tarlov Cyst Disease, Crohn’s Disease, and long term mental health challenges has fundamentally altered my relationship to my body and to time. Chronic illness demands presence. It asks uncomfortable questions. Where do you locate your worth when productivity fails. What remains when control dissolves. My work becomes a site of reckoning where suffering is neither romanticized nor erased but transformed. Creation becomes catharsis. A reorganization of chaos into something luminous. These questions culminate in my Metamorfosis series, particularly Metamorfosis Descenso, a UV reactive reinterpretation of Dante’s Inferno. The series consists of nine mixed media panels, each corresponding to one of the nine circles of hell and framed by geometric forms inspired by MK Ultra and CIA Gateway Program test cards. These shapes operate as psychological thresholds, reframing hell as a map of dissociation, control, moral distortion, and spiritual disconnection. Each panel centers my own body as both witness and site of collapse. My work is equally rooted in social awareness. As a Mexican American artist living in New York City, I question whose pain is normalized and whose is ignored. Through installation, photography, and video, I examine immigration, labor, identity, and survival. Art for me is not passive. It is an ethical encounter. It asks the viewer not only what they see, but what they participate in and what they choose not to see. My influences span artists who understood the soul as unstable, radiant, and fractured. Dante Alighieri, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali,  Vincent van Gogh, Hilma af Klint, Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Leonora Carrington, and Alex Grey. These artists used symbolism, color, and intensity to translate inner realities into visual language. I work within this lineage to build spaces where meaning is not fixed and where interpretation becomes an act of responsibility. Ultimately, my work does not offer answers. It creates conditions. I want the viewer to question their motives, their beliefs, their silence. To ask themselves where they have descended and where they are refusing to look. Under altered light, what was invisible begins to glow. If reality is entangled and if energy never disappears, then any transformation is possible. The question is not whether change will happen. The question is what role you play in it." danaleon.com @theartof.gettingbyy