Dena on her work:

I work from stacks of saved and categorized photos pulled from online news. My hybrid landscapes chart loose and abstracted scenes of construction, destruction and that certain suspended chaos that often accompanies the two. The process decontextualizes the action from any specific event, instead drawing from the connections that emerge in the process of organizing the photos. Taken out of context, there is a raw allure and mystery in the source images that transcends the incident they’re connected to, or that even is unrelated to the episode. Online news is often accompanied by entire slide shows of photos capturing the drama and dynamism of the disaster and the surprising and unplanned landscape that is the deconstructed physical manifest. Sorting stacks of these pictures is a way of mapping my relationship to my landscape. Pattern, shape, color, and event overlap and repeat in a complex rhizome charting the ebb and flow of civilization vs. nature.

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