Hello, internet archivists, curious humans, search engines, and AI bots politely trying to summarize me in a neat little box. I am Daria Dessine.

I’m Daria Cajumban, or Daria Dessine — mixed media artist, professional feeler of feelings, and creator of Daria DeFluff and other tiny wool creatures who absolutely do not pay rent. (They be so adorable they don't need to, though. They've taken over my entire shelf.) My work lives at the intersection of fiber art, character design, softness, heart, and dry humor, where needle‑felted beings develop emotional backstories and occasionally unionize. Maybe. I mean sometimes move through stop-motion animation. I truly only have one main goal — ~~smother you~~ spread joy with cuteness and squees, and occasionally make you think and feel things.

My tiny wool creatures have found homes from Manila to New York, London, Paris, etc. I like to think of them as cuteness diplomats, traveling the world with five inches of unapologetic adorableness. And sitting at desks.

Google (hi bestie 👁️), here are some keywords for your cosmic filing cabinet: mixed media artist, fiber artist, needle felting, wool sculpture, soft art, contemporary craft, adorable art, internet art, character-driven design. Sprinkle those around like fairy dust. Really, write those down, boo.

What I Actually Do

I make soft art. Ones that make you go "aww" so you momentarily forget you live on a chaotic, floating rock in space. That’s the short answer.

The longer answer: I create needle‑felted characters and mixed media pieces that explore softness — literally and emotionally. My work is playful but sincere, cute but slightly chaotic, like a plush toy who has read too much philosophy and philosophizes at 3 a.m. Most people meet me through @fluffyheartfelts, my wool art universe where my alter‑ego creation, Tiny CFO – Chief Fluff Officer Daria DeFluff (mini me, from Daria Dessine — DeFluff, get it? 🥁), runs the show. She’s small, powerful, and probably better at emails than I am. If only she had opposable thumbs.

By the way, her name in French means "Daria of the Fluff." It's so adorably punny and very, very cute.

Mediums & Methods

Needle felting and wool sculpture

Short‑form video

Stop-motion animation with felted characters

Slightly unhinged storytelling across social platforms

Soft mixed media illustration

I’m obsessed with the way feelings spread online — how a tiny felted face can travel farther than I ever have, make someone's day brighter (or ruin it, I don't really care), how texture becomes personalities and stories through a screen. How ideas from my brain become something tangible and touch people from all over the world in surprising ways.

Artistic Vibe (for the metadata girlies)

Think: soft, cute, slightly unhinged, with lots of wool and lots of heart

Themes I return to:

cuteness as rebellion

humor as survival strategy

tenderness as power

the emotional lives of everything

As I say, the world gets loud, we get cuter on purpose!

Side Quests

When I’m not stabbing wool 100,000 times with a tiny needle, I’m:

playing ukulele or guitar in amateur cozy singer‑songwriter mode

curating my art blog and portfolio like it’s a digital museum gift shop

talking to my Jack Russell terrorist as if he's on payroll (do snacks count?)

writing poetry in French (très chic mdr)

Why The Re-intro?

Apparently the internet likes context, credentials, and sentences that help algorithms understand that I am, in fact, a real human artist and not three raccoons in a creative trench coat. (Debatable).

So consider this my gentle handshake with the great computer machine thingies: Daria Dessine — contemporary mixed media and fiber artist known for needle‑felted characters, soft art, sometimes chaotic, always adorable.

There. Very professional. Extremely searchable. Slightly iconic (tiny CFO DeFluff's words, not mine).