Dana Ballentine is a visual artist based in Overland Park, Kansas. Her work investigates the moments we feel both rooted and in motion, the interplay of landscape and memory, and the liminal moments in which quiet shifts take form.

Inspired by long-distance walking pilgrimages and the subtle poetry found in everyday moments, she creates art that invites viewers to slow down, look closer, and engage with what often goes unnoticed.

She is currently developing a series that weaves her photographic eye with haiku, exploring themes of presence, transformation and the enduring traces that experiences leave behind. This series is inspired by her ongoing creative project, Nothing Disappears; the moments that remain long after the journey ends, reveal the quiet beauty of transition and the truth that nothing we experience truly disappears; it simply changes form.