Dasha was born in Chisinau, Moldova, and moved to the USA with her family 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. In 2013 she completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in digital art and animation. She has lived and worked in Chicago and Detroit as an art director and multimedia designer for over 10 years for corporations as well as her own ventures. In 2019 she co-founded Detroit Alley Cats, a grassroots cat rescue that has helped over 1000 cats to this day. When she is not rescuing cats, she tries to find time to make video art.
Her work explores themes of nature, poetics of space, the relationship between humans and animals, and her aspiration to become a spiritual person.
Artist Statement
“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