About

Born in Chisinau, Moldova, Dasha immigrated to the USA with her parents when she was five years old. Growing up in Southeastern Michigan she learned classical drawing and painting from her father; Alexander Zorin – an ecclesiastical artist and painter of murals in local churches. She earned her BFA in 2013 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in digital arts and animation. She has since worked corporate and freelance multimedia design jobs in Detroit. In 2019 she co-founded Detroit Alley Cats cat rescue, using her multimedia skills to bring awareness to the homeless cats in the city, and has since helped over 1000 cats in the city.

Her work explores themes of nature, poetics of space, the relationship between humans and animals, and her aspiration to become a spiritual person. 

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” -Gaston Bachelard

A painting is a room, liminal or final, enclosed or wild, captive or free, real or ethereal. A spirit flows through a room, through a house one room at a time. Each room should be conducive to the spirit. Every room is there, if not for you then for God. Rooms inside rooms, houses inside houses. To see the ways through, you follow the light. 

“Art is a prayer” – Andrei Tarkovsky