Art as Ritual, Repair, and Reconnection
Dana Klisanin’s creative practice explores ecological grief, symbolic repair, and human–nature reconnection through conceptual, participatory, and performative work.
A practice of attention, witnessing, and symbolic repair.
Her work moves between digital culture, ecological grief, ritual, storytelling, and the living world.
Across these projects, art becomes a portal: a way of noticing what has been overlooked, tending what has been harmed, and remembering that human flourishing is bound to the more-than-human world.
- Ritual
- Repair
- Ecological Grief
- Human–Nature Connection
- Participatory Art
- Digital Culture
- Speculative Futures
Butterfly Bandages
Field medicine for a fractured relationship with nature.
Butterfly Bandages is an ongoing body of work exploring the subtle grief that comes from being disconnected from the natural world—and the quiet rituals of repair that might help us find our way back.
Each piece features found elements from nature—feathers, beetle shells, butterfly wings—gently secured to canvas or paper using a hand-cut butterfly bandage, echoing a gesture of care from childhood.
The works act as symbolic dressings. They ask us to pause, to notice what we’ve walked past, and to remember that reverence begins with attention.
Participatory and archival work
Wild Twins
Wild Twins invites participants to recognize a kinship relationship with the untamed, intuitive self and the living world through poetic prompts, reflective writing, and symbolic response.
The project moves between intimate ritual, public installation, and living archive—asking what it means to live as relatives rather than observers.
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Archives
The archive includes earlier creative and social-impact media projects exploring digital altruism, collaborative heroism, water, ecological awareness, and the role of media in shaping human consciousness.
These works form part of Dana’s longer inquiry into how art, story, technology, and participation can expand the field of human possibility.
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Dana’s artwork is part of a broader body of work spanning psychology, futures thinking, storytelling, speculative fiction, and human–nature connection. Her creative projects inform her writing, speaking, research, and workshops by translating abstract questions into embodied, symbolic, and participatory experiences.