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 spaces where 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 The Geography of Thresholds, an ongoing body of work that brings together photography, haiku, and reflective writing to explore the landscapes we cross—both outwardly and inwardly. Through themes of departure, belonging, attention, loss, companionship, return, and the art of noticing, the project examines how ordinary moments become meaningful and how every threshold, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, quietly reshapes who we become.

At its heart is the belief that every experience leaves a trace. Nothing truly disappears; it becomes part of the geography we carry within us.