Dionna uses photography as a means of self-exploration, navigating the layered realms of memory, vulnerability, authenticity, and resilience. Through self-portraiture, she reclaims personal history and reshapes the narrative of self, incorporating symbolic materials such as fabric, relics, knickknacks, wood, and vivid colors as tools of transformation. Whether created in the studio, at home, or within nature, her self-portraits become meditative acts, revealing the complexity of human experience and the tensions between light and darkness, strength and fragility, past and present.

Her practice is deeply rooted in memory, identity, and the intangible moments that bridge time. By layering photography with elements such as cyanotype, an alternative photographic process, vessels, and the imagery of home, she explores the fluidity of selfhood and the evolving nature of personal and collective histories.