His other books include: Seminar Selling for the Financial Industry, published by McGraw-Hill and How to Market to High-Net-Worth Households. So I said, "Okay, well, I don't think we're getting too many more coming around. I said, oh, I'm sure you can. And there'd be nothing from the Hamptons, not those kinds of clams and those kind of oysters. 
So I had a very strong background in the Asian arts, Eastern arts, Middle Eastern. MS. SHEA: And very, I think, inspiring setting in many ways. So is that when you do kind of is it when you do your best physical work or your best . His brother, twin brother Ed, was a painter. Now, by any chance do know how your parents met? [11][12] Many examples of her work can be found on campus, including Science Benches, commissioned by the University (1990). MS. OKA DONER: Well, I'd say it's the space where I can put a lot of big pieces and raw material and fill it up in a different way than this space, which is more considered. For example, like when they started the poetry in motion in the subways, one of the first poems was called Hope [1924] by Emily Dickinson. We're sitting on wonderful Bugatti chairs that I thought maybe you'd purchased together, but you said, no, they kind of came to you. Thank goodness for AbeBooks. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, so that was exciting. And Miami was surrounded by an atoll. Well, one of the first things I did when I moved to Ann Arbor, is I set up a tour, and they gave them in those days, of the Rouge plant. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, it was a big canvas for me. And I'm sure that the table top . And I did play with it, and so anything that I had, I made special or I found a special one. [Laughs.] MS. OKA DONER: I think so. Is it hard to keep track of that? MS. SHEA: And there's the photograph of the studio [p.186-187]. And they used to be such a big city when the West was opened. We're they actually created in two pieces? MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] And I did a show with Gertrude Kasle, who was the best dealer in Detroit. He said that people got together at the riverside, and after they traded and swapped, they stayed and told stories and sang songs and they made the arts, they communicated. MS. SHEA: Right. And then she went on to Yale [New Haven]. And that does count. MS. SHEA: That is. I wasn't ready to take on what New York was. I used them differently. On the day I visited, Oka Doner showed me her Poetry Cartsbookshelves on wheels shes made from wood and cast and fabricated bronze. Their students were engaged in poetry, dance, light, music, all combined into a unitary vision, a motif that shaped Oka Doner's student years and is characteristic of her work today. I could see , MS. SHEA: You could see the flame from the . If you were talking to someone you said that you have interns in the studio. A cast-bronze Radiant table supports a variety of design objects inspired by the ocean and its detritusthree of Oka Doners hand-blown and etched crystal bowls set on bronze and cast-glass reefs and a wax sculpture of a brain that, she says, emulates or suggests brain coral beneath a glass dome. They had wanted me to bring bronze. MS. SHEA: Okay. Breitmeyer, Eleanor. Oka Doners grandfather Samuel Heller painted the ceilings in the original Metropolitan Opera House, on 39th Street in Manhattan, and her aunt Dorothy Heller was an Abstract Expressionist who trained under Hans Hofmann and exhibited in prestigious galleries, including Tibor de Nagy and Betty Parsons, but shunned the scene at the movements Cedar Tavern hangout. 
MS. OKA DONER: And I've always made installations. And I know when something's done. MS. OKA DONER: No, that bench is a two-person. It contains the books of five generations of her family, roughly arranged by topic, including photography, natural history, poetry, Ancient East, Pre-Columbian Americas, Egypt, the history of design, architecture, art history and artists monographs. MS. OKA DONER: I think we should all be trained as engineers. And I studied printmaking also with Frank Cassara and Emil Weddige. And I agreed. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] It's also in the book, Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden [Michele Oka Doner and Mitchell Wolfson Jr.; New York: Regan, 2007.] MS. OKA DONER: Yes. And when you came back to New York were there family and relatives that . In Mexico they have the San Cayetano Church, where theres so much ornate gold and that luster enhances the spirituality of the building and perhaps adds comfort for those who gather there.. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. The interdependency is wonderful. So now we have it functioning as a circular file and a corral. MS. SHEA: Okay. And what I'm going to do is, when we renovate, is I'll be able to get them out of the boxes again. MS. OKA DONER: No, I really thought they were not sophisticated enough. And it was immigrants who came who wanted to be both Jewish and American. MS. OKA DONER: I chose the University of Michigan because there aren't too many schools that were away that were . So she was kind of like a little whirlwind. So I see why they chose it. She was difficult, mind you, but these were her shining qualities. It's really nice to have. MS. OKA DONER: Both parents were very interested. MS. SHEA: No. And not until my own sons were beginning to learn to write and needed some help, my older son in particular, and I taught him how to write, that I realized that I knew how to write. That, in turn, led to an invitation to participate in the competition for the Miami airport project, which Oka Doner won with her submission of an eight-foot-long drawing. I've always had a connection with that place, with the Sheeler painting of it. We used the DNA and talked to the scientists and they gave us a lot of material. MS. SHEA: And did you give a talk along with the exhibition and . The Japanese: Their cups were their works of art, she says. That's interesting. MS. OKA DONER: And that was very exciting, for these tattooed porcelain dolls. I did. I still have my notes from classes, too. I chose a fossil marble for that. MS. OKA DONER: And he's the one I'm working with now. MS. SHEA: And was there art taught in elementary school? "[3], In 20092010, Oka Doner installed SoulCatchers, approximately 400 shamanistic sculptures in the kiln room at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactury, Munich, Germany. MS. SHEA: Okay. One went to the Yale Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum. I work in Miami Beach, Miami at the airport. MS. SHEA: Right. Would you just try to . It's uneven. He's wonderful. MS. SHEA: But for large-scale pieces, like I'm looking at . And then I lived in a sorority house, which was a very common thing to do. Vaizey, Marina, "Objects, Things" The Financial Times, London, England, August 30, 1973: 1. WebMICHELE OKA DONER (b. MS. SHEA: Aha, aha. [Laughs. As I traveled I used to shard on the ruins, just things that had branching patterns and interesting textures, a real compost heap. Michele Oka Doner (b. Right this moment it seems to be centered on the projects I have now, but going backwards, there are so many. Ocean Drive, Jan. 2001: 254. We werent meant to as humans. And he went to Mills College [Oakland, CA] after he left Ann Arbor, and he then ended up growing pot. I made the patterns. MS. SHEA: Or did you just collect it visually? Earning the respect of other artists in the community, and my own sense of self-worth as well grew. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. MS. OKA DONER: in the serious, with the serious students. She had the chance to put her own spin on the concept in the late 1980s when she won a national competition for the Herald Square subway station, a major transit hub. Or if you . It gets caught in the tangles and moves across the dense surfaces as if they were draperythe luster is always changing. This astonishes me. . But you're certainly picking up the vibe in the room. MS. OKA DONER: It is. [13] Other work can be found in the collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art[14][15] including the large, cast bronze figures by Oka Doner, Angry Neptune, Salacia and Strider, located outside the museum. Time and place have had their say." For some people love is given, for others only heaven.". You know, that things just keep moving, moving forward. And second printing comes out with Harper Collins next month, October 2nd. She [Monica Lachasse] said, I'm coming to New York and I'd like to come over. You feel part of a community and part of a family here, which I think is more important than people understood it to be. MS. SHEA: But you wanted to have something that was beautiful. MS. SHEA: in a much smaller form. I think today it's a reality. Patrick Lannan came and bought. We'd love to create [inaudible.]. And I said, well, actually I'll just send you. "Bones and Squishes at the Detroit Institute of Arts.". MS. OKA DONER: We had four-wheel drive over rivers, and it was dangerous. The program is designed to transform the inside team from a client relations mind-set, to a world-class sales team. Web363 followers. And I said it's ridiculous. You have what you think and hope and plan that you're going to accomplish. This one has the serene face of a child Buddha and sits flat without a pedestal, legs spread apart like a baby doll. So there's quite a document . MS. OKA DONER: L-E-A-R. And that is actually pictured in the book that I published. It was life itself., Other cultures have influenced her as well. WebMichele Oka Doner has been called natures scribe. The sculptures and decorative objectscandelabras, tableware, and accessoriesshe creates recall organic forms, resembling bark, tree roots, microscopic molecules, and the human body. And when you did your lecture you showed it's a certain type of palm leaf? They invited me to have a one-person exhibition when I graduated. MS. OKA DONER: This piece is from the Hamptons. So they're three different approaches. We talked about the way different materials carry light, how a necklace brings light to a womans face, for instance. And she had planned to go to France, and she was quite disappointed that her boat was confiscated for troops. Are they drying? And that's a bluish background, because I did sky. MS. OKA DONER: She went down there to teach. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. So that's these four. Was it a part of that process? MS. OKA DONER: That was unusual, to go from the proper New York moment to something that had texture and soul, I'll say. And then it was out in successive paperbacks over the years, of which someone [Reva Schwader, a painter, member of the Samsonite Luggage Family] gave me a gift 30 years ago in Michigan, never realizing what I would do with it. And tell me about your father's family. To them, it wasnt art, it wasnt design, she says. And he wrote wonderful things on justice and courthouses and how they evolved, and the rituals. Almost three hundred of Oka Doners porcelain Soul Catchers are mounted as sentries on the curving wall of the entranceway. Or , MS. OKA DONER: No. And you know, there are larger ideas, global ideas like, transcendent ideas. MS. SHEA: That's what I was going to say, because it seems like such a large, open, sprawling I'm sure even back then. The one that I saw coming down was Walt Whitman. It is composed of over 9000 bronzes embedded in terrazzo with mother-of-pearl. So it's a secret at this point. In 1987, she won a national competition sponsored by the MTA's Arts For Transit Program with Radiant Site[25] a 165ft. long wall for the Herald Square subway station in New York City. And for the 10th anniversary they had Langston Hughes, called Luck [1947]. You're going I'm so sorry." MS. OKA DONER: So those are really the only two I actually bought in a store. And it was wet and responsive to my hands. MS. OKA DONER: have their say, yes. Eucalyptus? She was awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Arts (2016). There's these bluffs, and we found lots of fossils. In most of these shows I was the youngest. Her first video, A Walk on the Beach premiered at Art Basel Miami Beach (2011) in the public screenings "Art Video" program in SoundScape Park on the 7,000 square foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center.[40]. MS. SHEA: Is it? MS. OKA DONER: Yes, they thought that was a good thing. Her first public piece, though, was for a quieter spot: a historic Michigan cemetery that was the final resting place for many American war veterans. MS. OKA DONER: Then I did work for Peter Marino, and he had that piece and he traded me a silver tray for it. I didn't know that. And it had fabulous building stock, a wonderful Louis Sullivan building. There weren't crowds of tourists. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] So your second degree was a Master of Fine Arts also at the University of Michigan. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, there's a lot. MS. OKA DONER: They have more bark. [Laughs.]. And I had the state bear. But we were starting to talk about some of your public art projects. And then Lee Nordness came and I had three in the studio. Or [inaudible.]. And all these home gardens, I think, and botanical paintings, there's so much reflection taking place, and maybe even more now that it's not part of our daily lives. And they finally did it and they've done very well. ], MS. SHEA: Which, of course is, I guess many people would say, was Albert Kahn's , MS. OKA DONER: It's a masterpiece. "To this viewer, the best work in the show is that of Michele Oka Doner, who makes fossilized relics of clap-bones, plants, primitive idols, and large pelvic-shaped structures that metamorphose into grisly chairs. So I go and I go up in my room, and I open the curtain and I look out at the river and all of a sudden I realize that down the river is the flame. Her name was Miss Parsons. Do you find it reenergizing? Or not in art classes? The chair for me was always a philosophic essay., In ancient times, when most people sat on the ground, Oka Doner continues, the chairs elevation served as a metaphor. MS. SHEA: And were the benches actually I see a join-line. The walls are plywood. It could be a very fine chair. And since I wasn't a hunter . MS. SHEA: And it sounds like that would be expressed in your home. Were you a part of as in school, were you part of a gallery show? And that tree had roots. MS. OKA DONER: It was. But they weren't necessarily thinking, oh, we want something . MS. OKA DONER: Well, they asked me to do a bowl and a vase, and I had other ideas that I thought were exciting, and they ultimately did them. The early work is a lot of their period is art nouveau. 750 9th Street, NWVictor Building, Suite 2200 MS. OKA DONER: To be respectful so that it can allow me to get up every day and get all the things done and not have to think about my body. MS. OKA DONER: Mm-hmm. And I did diatoms, which are just charming and really they look like charms. [Laughs. MS. SHEA: That seems like that might be a great note to end on. I think I was just waiting for the opportunity to have some freedom to work in kind of peace and quiet. Yes, I'm the grandmother of installations. And then I learned that there was a lot of randomness, I just had to begin to look for it. MS. OKA DONER: I am looking for them as we speak, because he had a daughter, my mother's sister Dorothy, who studied with Hans Hofmann and showed with Betty Parsons and with Tibor di Nagy. So I go through that museum and I can't believe how many copies of Rembrandts , MS. SHEA: It all looks amazingly familiar. And I made them because I needed light. I make them. And then the last two over there . I was there last week at Higgins Lake [Midland, MI] visiting a friend and client [Junia Doan], and I saw pileated woodpeckers in the woods. That's the hardest one. I laid it in in sort of geological time; took me time, too. And I think it's so true, because being born in Miami Beach was very significant. MS. SHEA: So you collected shells. I love wine, but I like it when I sit down and have a meal. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] Yes. MS. SHEA: And I'm looking across the table at the beautiful are they called fishbowls? And I said, what, really? The next time I went back up there I said, see what I did. MS. 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So I had a very strong background in the Asian arts, Eastern arts, Middle Eastern. MS. SHEA: And very, I think, inspiring setting in many ways. So is that when you do kind of is it when you do your best physical work or your best . His brother, twin brother Ed, was a painter. Now, by any chance do know how your parents met? [11][12] Many examples of her work can be found on campus, including Science Benches, commissioned by the University (1990). MS. OKA DONER: Well, I'd say it's the space where I can put a lot of big pieces and raw material and fill it up in a different way than this space, which is more considered. For example, like when they started the poetry in motion in the subways, one of the first poems was called Hope [1924] by Emily Dickinson. We're sitting on wonderful Bugatti chairs that I thought maybe you'd purchased together, but you said, no, they kind of came to you. Thank goodness for AbeBooks. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, so that was exciting. And Miami was surrounded by an atoll. Well, one of the first things I did when I moved to Ann Arbor, is I set up a tour, and they gave them in those days, of the Rouge plant. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, it was a big canvas for me. And I'm sure that the table top . And I did play with it, and so anything that I had, I made special or I found a special one. [Laughs.] MS. OKA DONER: I think so. Is it hard to keep track of that? MS. SHEA: And there's the photograph of the studio [p.186-187]. And they used to be such a big city when the West was opened. We're they actually created in two pieces? MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] And I did a show with Gertrude Kasle, who was the best dealer in Detroit. He said that people got together at the riverside, and after they traded and swapped, they stayed and told stories and sang songs and they made the arts, they communicated. MS. SHEA: Right. And then she went on to Yale [New Haven]. And that does count. MS. SHEA: That is. I wasn't ready to take on what New York was. I used them differently. On the day I visited, Oka Doner showed me her Poetry Cartsbookshelves on wheels shes made from wood and cast and fabricated bronze. Their students were engaged in poetry, dance, light, music, all combined into a unitary vision, a motif that shaped Oka Doner's student years and is characteristic of her work today. I could see , MS. SHEA: You could see the flame from the . If you were talking to someone you said that you have interns in the studio. A cast-bronze Radiant table supports a variety of design objects inspired by the ocean and its detritusthree of Oka Doners hand-blown and etched crystal bowls set on bronze and cast-glass reefs and a wax sculpture of a brain that, she says, emulates or suggests brain coral beneath a glass dome. They had wanted me to bring bronze. MS. SHEA: Okay. Breitmeyer, Eleanor. Oka Doners grandfather Samuel Heller painted the ceilings in the original Metropolitan Opera House, on 39th Street in Manhattan, and her aunt Dorothy Heller was an Abstract Expressionist who trained under Hans Hofmann and exhibited in prestigious galleries, including Tibor de Nagy and Betty Parsons, but shunned the scene at the movements Cedar Tavern hangout. MS. OKA DONER: And I've always made installations. And I know when something's done. MS. OKA DONER: No, that bench is a two-person. It contains the books of five generations of her family, roughly arranged by topic, including photography, natural history, poetry, Ancient East, Pre-Columbian Americas, Egypt, the history of design, architecture, art history and artists monographs. MS. OKA DONER: I think we should all be trained as engineers. And I studied printmaking also with Frank Cassara and Emil Weddige. And I agreed. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] It's also in the book, Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden [Michele Oka Doner and Mitchell Wolfson Jr.; New York: Regan, 2007.] MS. OKA DONER: Yes. And when you came back to New York were there family and relatives that . In Mexico they have the San Cayetano Church, where theres so much ornate gold and that luster enhances the spirituality of the building and perhaps adds comfort for those who gather there.. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. The interdependency is wonderful. So now we have it functioning as a circular file and a corral. MS. SHEA: Okay. And what I'm going to do is, when we renovate, is I'll be able to get them out of the boxes again. MS. OKA DONER: No, I really thought they were not sophisticated enough. And it was immigrants who came who wanted to be both Jewish and American. MS. OKA DONER: I chose the University of Michigan because there aren't too many schools that were away that were . So she was kind of like a little whirlwind. So I see why they chose it. She was difficult, mind you, but these were her shining qualities. It's really nice to have. MS. OKA DONER: Both parents were very interested. MS. SHEA: No. And not until my own sons were beginning to learn to write and needed some help, my older son in particular, and I taught him how to write, that I realized that I knew how to write. That, in turn, led to an invitation to participate in the competition for the Miami airport project, which Oka Doner won with her submission of an eight-foot-long drawing. I've always had a connection with that place, with the Sheeler painting of it. We used the DNA and talked to the scientists and they gave us a lot of material. MS. SHEA: And did you give a talk along with the exhibition and . The Japanese: Their cups were their works of art, she says. That's interesting. MS. OKA DONER: And that was very exciting, for these tattooed porcelain dolls. I did. I still have my notes from classes, too. I chose a fossil marble for that. MS. OKA DONER: And he's the one I'm working with now. MS. SHEA: And was there art taught in elementary school? "[3], In 20092010, Oka Doner installed SoulCatchers, approximately 400 shamanistic sculptures in the kiln room at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactury, Munich, Germany. MS. SHEA: Okay. One went to the Yale Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum. I work in Miami Beach, Miami at the airport. MS. SHEA: Right. Would you just try to . It's uneven. He's wonderful. MS. SHEA: But for large-scale pieces, like I'm looking at . And then I lived in a sorority house, which was a very common thing to do. Vaizey, Marina, "Objects, Things" The Financial Times, London, England, August 30, 1973: 1. WebMICHELE OKA DONER (b. MS. SHEA: Aha, aha. [Laughs. As I traveled I used to shard on the ruins, just things that had branching patterns and interesting textures, a real compost heap. Michele Oka Doner (b. Right this moment it seems to be centered on the projects I have now, but going backwards, there are so many. Ocean Drive, Jan. 2001: 254. We werent meant to as humans. And he went to Mills College [Oakland, CA] after he left Ann Arbor, and he then ended up growing pot. I made the patterns. MS. SHEA: Or did you just collect it visually? Earning the respect of other artists in the community, and my own sense of self-worth as well grew. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. MS. OKA DONER: in the serious, with the serious students. She had the chance to put her own spin on the concept in the late 1980s when she won a national competition for the Herald Square subway station, a major transit hub. Or if you . It gets caught in the tangles and moves across the dense surfaces as if they were draperythe luster is always changing. This astonishes me. . But you're certainly picking up the vibe in the room. MS. OKA DONER: It is. [13] Other work can be found in the collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art[14][15] including the large, cast bronze figures by Oka Doner, Angry Neptune, Salacia and Strider, located outside the museum. Time and place have had their say." For some people love is given, for others only heaven.". You know, that things just keep moving, moving forward. And second printing comes out with Harper Collins next month, October 2nd. She [Monica Lachasse] said, I'm coming to New York and I'd like to come over. You feel part of a community and part of a family here, which I think is more important than people understood it to be. MS. SHEA: But you wanted to have something that was beautiful. MS. SHEA: in a much smaller form. I think today it's a reality. Patrick Lannan came and bought. We'd love to create [inaudible.]. And I said, well, actually I'll just send you. "Bones and Squishes at the Detroit Institute of Arts.". MS. OKA DONER: We had four-wheel drive over rivers, and it was dangerous. The program is designed to transform the inside team from a client relations mind-set, to a world-class sales team. Web363 followers. And I said it's ridiculous. You have what you think and hope and plan that you're going to accomplish. This one has the serene face of a child Buddha and sits flat without a pedestal, legs spread apart like a baby doll. So there's quite a document . MS. OKA DONER: L-E-A-R. And that is actually pictured in the book that I published. It was life itself., Other cultures have influenced her as well. WebMichele Oka Doner has been called natures scribe. The sculptures and decorative objectscandelabras, tableware, and accessoriesshe creates recall organic forms, resembling bark, tree roots, microscopic molecules, and the human body. And when you did your lecture you showed it's a certain type of palm leaf? They invited me to have a one-person exhibition when I graduated. MS. OKA DONER: This piece is from the Hamptons. So they're three different approaches. We talked about the way different materials carry light, how a necklace brings light to a womans face, for instance. And she had planned to go to France, and she was quite disappointed that her boat was confiscated for troops. Are they drying? And that's a bluish background, because I did sky. MS. OKA DONER: She went down there to teach. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. So that's these four. Was it a part of that process? MS. OKA DONER: That was unusual, to go from the proper New York moment to something that had texture and soul, I'll say. And then it was out in successive paperbacks over the years, of which someone [Reva Schwader, a painter, member of the Samsonite Luggage Family] gave me a gift 30 years ago in Michigan, never realizing what I would do with it. And tell me about your father's family. To them, it wasnt art, it wasnt design, she says. And he wrote wonderful things on justice and courthouses and how they evolved, and the rituals. Almost three hundred of Oka Doners porcelain Soul Catchers are mounted as sentries on the curving wall of the entranceway. Or , MS. OKA DONER: No. And you know, there are larger ideas, global ideas like, transcendent ideas. MS. SHEA: That's what I was going to say, because it seems like such a large, open, sprawling I'm sure even back then. The one that I saw coming down was Walt Whitman. It is composed of over 9000 bronzes embedded in terrazzo with mother-of-pearl. So it's a secret at this point. In 1987, she won a national competition sponsored by the MTA's Arts For Transit Program with Radiant Site[25] a 165ft. long wall for the Herald Square subway station in New York City. And for the 10th anniversary they had Langston Hughes, called Luck [1947]. You're going I'm so sorry." MS. OKA DONER: So those are really the only two I actually bought in a store. And it was wet and responsive to my hands. MS. OKA DONER: have their say, yes. Eucalyptus? She was awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Arts (2016). There's these bluffs, and we found lots of fossils. In most of these shows I was the youngest. Her first video, A Walk on the Beach premiered at Art Basel Miami Beach (2011) in the public screenings "Art Video" program in SoundScape Park on the 7,000 square foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center.[40]. MS. SHEA: Is it? MS. OKA DONER: Yes, they thought that was a good thing. Her first public piece, though, was for a quieter spot: a historic Michigan cemetery that was the final resting place for many American war veterans. MS. OKA DONER: Then I did work for Peter Marino, and he had that piece and he traded me a silver tray for it. I didn't know that. And it had fabulous building stock, a wonderful Louis Sullivan building. There weren't crowds of tourists. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] So your second degree was a Master of Fine Arts also at the University of Michigan. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, there's a lot. MS. OKA DONER: They have more bark. [Laughs.]. And I had the state bear. But we were starting to talk about some of your public art projects. And then Lee Nordness came and I had three in the studio. Or [inaudible.]. And all these home gardens, I think, and botanical paintings, there's so much reflection taking place, and maybe even more now that it's not part of our daily lives. And they finally did it and they've done very well. ], MS. SHEA: Which, of course is, I guess many people would say, was Albert Kahn's , MS. OKA DONER: It's a masterpiece. "To this viewer, the best work in the show is that of Michele Oka Doner, who makes fossilized relics of clap-bones, plants, primitive idols, and large pelvic-shaped structures that metamorphose into grisly chairs. So I go and I go up in my room, and I open the curtain and I look out at the river and all of a sudden I realize that down the river is the flame. Her name was Miss Parsons. Do you find it reenergizing? Or not in art classes? The chair for me was always a philosophic essay., In ancient times, when most people sat on the ground, Oka Doner continues, the chairs elevation served as a metaphor. MS. SHEA: And were the benches actually I see a join-line. The walls are plywood. It could be a very fine chair. And since I wasn't a hunter . MS. SHEA: And it sounds like that would be expressed in your home. Were you a part of as in school, were you part of a gallery show? And that tree had roots. MS. OKA DONER: It was. But they weren't necessarily thinking, oh, we want something . MS. OKA DONER: Well, they asked me to do a bowl and a vase, and I had other ideas that I thought were exciting, and they ultimately did them. The early work is a lot of their period is art nouveau. 750 9th Street, NWVictor Building, Suite 2200 MS. OKA DONER: To be respectful so that it can allow me to get up every day and get all the things done and not have to think about my body. MS. OKA DONER: Mm-hmm. And I did diatoms, which are just charming and really they look like charms. [Laughs. MS. SHEA: That seems like that might be a great note to end on. I think I was just waiting for the opportunity to have some freedom to work in kind of peace and quiet. Yes, I'm the grandmother of installations. And then I learned that there was a lot of randomness, I just had to begin to look for it. MS. OKA DONER: I am looking for them as we speak, because he had a daughter, my mother's sister Dorothy, who studied with Hans Hofmann and showed with Betty Parsons and with Tibor di Nagy. So I go through that museum and I can't believe how many copies of Rembrandts , MS. SHEA: It all looks amazingly familiar. And I made them because I needed light. I make them. And then the last two over there . I was there last week at Higgins Lake [Midland, MI] visiting a friend and client [Junia Doan], and I saw pileated woodpeckers in the woods. That's the hardest one. I laid it in in sort of geological time; took me time, too. And I think it's so true, because being born in Miami Beach was very significant. MS. SHEA: So you collected shells. I love wine, but I like it when I sit down and have a meal. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] Yes. MS. SHEA: And I'm looking across the table at the beautiful are they called fishbowls? And I said, what, really? The next time I went back up there I said, see what I did. MS. SHEA: And that sounds a little going back to you said you studied a lot of the Buddhist and those traditions? Michele Oka Doner has often talked about how IGY lit her fire when she was in middle school. We didn't replace this part of it, but the seats were really in very bad shape. Very unstructured piece. 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