“You dance inside my chest where
no one sees you, but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.”
D.D. Aspiras enjoys writing letterpress printing, poetry, printmaking, book arts, and mixed media collage. Her experiences as a singer, dancer, and designer inform her poetry writing and how she works with text, image, and structure. Currently obsessed with haiku, she has started a daily practice of writing poems in this structure, in both the traditional and modern explorations of this form and is interested in writing haiku as a contemplative practice. She deeply values how art can transform us and connect us to meaning.
Desiree is a licensed therapist, and also teaches graduate level counseling and therapy students. She is also a mother, partner, runner and a Jane of many trades. If she had more time she would have a garden of bonsai trees and learn how to weld.
Photographs & Images by D.D. Aspiras
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Wind Is At Our Back, Feb. 15 - Apr. 4, 2021
A celebration of recent voter-turnout efforts and a call to action to compel this country’s new centrist regime to fulfill the dreams fueling those efforts
Bushel Collective, Delhi, NY
Letterpress Saves My Soul Daily, September 2021
A virtual exhibition curated by artist Sharon Jue featuring artist-printmakers grounded in the letterpress tradition of activism & community.
Graphic Impressions - Journal of Southern Graphics Council International
2020 So Far: Prints and Drawings, Oct. - Dec. 2020
featuring selected prints from the first two Printmakers Against Racism events and drawings by Morgan Miller III
Athenaeum Art Center, Logan Heights, CA
Words with Wings: Poetry and Prints - 2018
James Alan Rose Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Fiesta of Prints & Book Arts: Celebrating Printmaking - 2018
Athenaeum Art Center, Logan Heights, CA
San Diego Nasty Women Art Exhibition - 2017
Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
That's (Not) the Story - 2010
Saville Theater, San Diego, CA