Doner explains, My father kept the development at bay. People do graffiti where things are dirty and neglected. [laughs delightedly], Iwas wondering: Is she one of those mad people or is she an artist?. In later years, Oka Doner co-authored, with Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden,[5] an intimate portrayal of Miami Beach from the 1920s to the 1960s using their families as prisms to reflect the times. She and good friend Mitchell Mickey Wolfson Jr, wrote Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden in 2004. Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. She has even cowritten a memoir of her hometown, Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden. Calcium carbonate is the bony substance with which sea animals create reefs, he explained. Oka Doner has become best known for her public artworks, some three dozen of which are on display across the country. By Elisa Turner | May 10, 2022 Whether or not she's in sight of the sea, artist and designer Michele Oka Doner has the soul of a beachcomber, ever curious to comb her imagination for paths linking art and science. It meant perfect manners and beautiful clothes and showing up on time. Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans six decades. To them, it wasnt art, it wasnt design, she says. Includes excerpts from. And light streams through her sculpture Totem, built from archival wax and organic materials between 2007 and 2015. The pungent smell of smoke wafting into her family's yard seeped . Her student works included imaginary seeds and fruit. You feel part of a community and part of a family here, which I think is more important than people understood it to be. No, I think religion there was a wonderful article in yesterdays Science [section of] the Times, that said that religion evolved in the same way morality did, as a response to what was good for not only the ape, but he understood that all apes had to be cared for around him. Her Tattooed Porcelain Dolls were adopted by students protesting the U.S.'s use of napalm, causing disfiguration. | SASHA MASLOV PHOTO, Her Palm Books, produced in varying dimensions on abaca paper, are little meditations on design in nature, each page showing a different configuration of the palm leaf, crisscrossed or fanning open like a starreminding us of the connections between the terrestrial and the celestial. Doner is a native Floridian, but spent almost two . You cant do that, she says. Wave and Shell Obelisks, 1992. That is something of an understatement. MICHELE OKA DONER (b. There are also plenty of photos of their prominent families, movie premieres, dining clubs and a special shot of Kenneth Oka, Doners father with a visiting President Kennedy. This area of the studio, which contains Oka Doners 1995 Radiant Disk table surrounded by Carlo Bugatti chairs, serves as a place for meetings, discussions and writing. And those answers dont come from a book or a teacher or a parent. I loved it. He paid attention., Her mothers side is responsible for her artistic bent. Notlikewhere I grew up art was still something that was hung on the wall over the couch.. At the same time, her practice developed beyond sculpture to, among other media, beguiling works on paper, often embedded with organic material, which are represented by Marlborough Graphics and available on 1stdibs. I cook a breakfast every day and I pay attention to it. Her artistic production encompasses sculpture, public art, prints, drawings, functional objects, artist books other five other media. The work now stretches a mile and a quarter and encompasses thousands of unique bronze sculptures inlaid in a terrazzo floor along with a sprinkling of mother-of-pearl, which Oka Doner explains does double duty, evoking sea foam and serving as a framing device. The 1985 marble table is surrounded by bentwood and cane chairs and, on its right side, a 1749 French country bench with a horsehair seat that is a Doner family heirloom. Early Life Although she now divides her time between her Soho loft in New York City and her Collins Avenue condo, Doner wrote the book on Miami Beach quite literally. Oka Doners oversize letterpress book What Is White was made with handmade cotton and abaca paper. That winter we scooped snowflakes from the windowsill onto the glass slides of a microscope. | CLAUDE SAMPTON PHOTO, Light, of course, is what Miami glamour was about. In the spring, dressed in leotards, ribbons, and sandwich boards, we portrayed the planets orbiting the sun. Michele Oka Doner has often talked about how IGY lit her fire when she was in middle school. In New York, she continued to invoke human, animal and plant forms, reinforcing the links between them with life-size headless bronzes seemingly made from coral or tree bark. [A Psalm of Life by HenryWadsworth Longfellow] a sleeping soul! This substance is dissolved in seawater throughout the world. Michele Oka Doner and her husband Fred opened their stunning SoHo loft for an evening of music featuring artist William Kentridge and The Knights, the brilliant New York based orchestral. Additionally, Michele Oka Doner created a large-scale art installation, Mangrove Retreat, in 2015 for Art Basel Miami Beach using Sunbrella fabric.[42]. And there is magic. She has also worked in costume and set design and has created over 40 public and private permanent art installations, including A Walk On The Beach, a one and a quarter mile long bronze and terrazzo concourse at Miami International Airport. The things I love are still palpable here. I have these segmented worms in my dining room table. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, design objects, furniture, jewelry, public art and video installations. In Miami, Oka Doner had a solo exhibition at the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in 2016, and will have a solo exhibition at the Lowe Art Museum, opening in October, 2017. 1, New York. It was uplifting. It made me think of Miami glamour and the luxurious invented Eden of her childhood. On the left is Totem, 200715, composed of wax, organic material and stainless steel; on the right is the terra-cotta Hestia, 2010. [] I mean we talk about Mother Earth but I feel like this is my mother. NBC. Oh theres so much great truth in how things divide and replicate themselves. Reviewed as classic of social history,[6][7] with material that was part of the public record of its time, it was used as a textbook in Human Geography at George Washington University in 2008. by Karen Barr. And I like washing my hands in the morning. She has also worked in costume and set design and has created over 40 public and private permanent art installations, including "A Walk On The Beach," a one and a quarter mile long bronze and . Michele Oka Doner's work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world. She began making these anthropomorphic forms in the late 1970s and returned to them during her 20082010 residency at the historic Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory in Germany, creating fifteen hundred more. I love it for many reasons. Michele Oka Doner - Original Drawing Painting Abstract Biomorphic Art Gold Leaf Michele Oka Doner For Sale at 1stDibs Sign Up Furniture Lighting Decor & Gifts Art NFTs Jewelry & Watches Fashion World of 1stDibs Sale Auctions Sorry, we're currently experiencing technical difficulties. Its typical that Oka Doner should view her work in these terms. She has chosen it as the place to be interviewed and photographed, during both of which she is multi-tasking, looking for vines she can take back to her studio to incorporate in her art. I dont have electric, I always have gas for cooking. and at the base of the grave, microscopic pollen grains as well as impressions of flowering plants indicate she had been buried with flowers . The bubbles are formed by hydrogen, which is given off during the chemical reaction that causes the metal forms to calcify underwater. She perceived a continuation of this tradition in Diego Riveras landmark 27-panel installation Detroit Industry murals enveloping an entire gallery in the DIA, which she calls a masterpiece. I saw this harking back to the long tradition of the room being the work of art itself, Oka Doner says. In Europe, I had seen what I call the room as a work of art. Oka Doner added a wood trellis around the structure to encourage the growth of native vanilla vines, night-blooming cactus and local snake cactus. "Smithsonian ArtReport on Objects USApart of an exhibition that will be travelling. Though Radiant Site does not possess any of Oka Doners organic imagery, it surely recalls a natural source light itself. I pay attention to where the coffee beans come from and I grind them. DETROIT The exhibition Fluent in the Language of Dreams at Wasserman Projects picks up a project that Michele Oka Doner began 40 years ago. That poem was written a long time ago theres always been people who dont wake up. 2009. Hed stop for a sunset. [28] "The world itself has a soul, found in the human capacity of imagination. 628K subscribers The artist Michele Oka Doner tells the story of her outfit for our Ageless Dailies. She is well known for creating numerous public art installations throughout the United States, including Flight at Reagan International Airport, Washington, DC and the mile-and-a-quarter-long A Walk on the Beach, a bronze and terrazzo concourse at . Golden Reflection table lamp, 2016, offered by David Gill Gallery, Sedimentary box, 2016, offered by David Gill Gallery, Michele Oka Doner for Christofle wine bottle coaster, 2003, offered by Q Antiques and Design, Julie L. Belcove | photos by Emily Andrews, represented by Marlborough Graphics and available on 1stdibs. Id always look for forms on the beach, she remembers. The Science Benches. To this day, you can see the legacy of her school notebooks with their painstaking drawings of the mysterious forces in the oceans and solar system: its there in her letterpress book What Is White, where an ice particle is devised from the impression of wax cuts she made in her studioso embryonic, as she puts it; or in her Celestial chairs with their arcs, swirls, and spirals approximating aurora patterns. Oka Doner, in her signature white dress, gazes out at Soho from a window in her loft. The former director of PAMM who organized the show, Thom . Her artwork is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, which she first encountered as a child growing up in Miami Beach. You know, I was thinking about the Ravenna mosaics, the way they illuminate space she told me. Oka Doners designs, she admits, are made for the eye, not the back or derriere. But I was also thinking of other places, too, where theres mud and dirt and human misery. She is not without humor or lightness but she is unusually and gratifyingly serious. A Conversation with Michele Oka Doner. This table I built about 35 years ago and it has fossilized segmented worms, and the circles are part of a Crinoid, which is a sea lily. More than walking on the beach, experiencing the piece is like being suspended in a celestial vault, surrounded by marine constellations and fossil comets, or rather walking along the bottom of an ocean where the milky way has become ship wreck. At the table, Oka Doner works on a drawing. The concourse floor was executed in three sections made up of A Walk on the Beach, 1991-1995, From Seashore to Tropical Gardens 1996-2010 and Galaxy, the eye of the storm that joined them in 2009. September 25, 2017Michele Oka Doners Soho loft is part living space, part laboratory. She has created collections with Steuben in glass, Christofle in silver, and Nymphenburg in porcelain. Michele Oka Doner is an internationally acclaimed artist and designer whose prolific career spans four decades. 18 inch vent free gas logs with remote; briggs and stratton leaking oil from valve cover; shimano steps e6100 derestrict; eft ammo chart 2022; rites of passage sociology It has to be the same, or its going to shrink apart. But the seam that opened up at the juncture, evoking the earths topography, did not faze her. Surfaces are covered with intriguing collections of natural objects and archeological finds: minute bird skulls, fossils, stone tools, shells. Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist and author. The separation of work that was made for its own sake was pretty recent in our wiring.. She had help on the project from Ian Koblick, a marine biologist and president of the Marine Resources Development Foundation. Corten steel panels flank the entryway to Oka Doners loft, on which is an installation of SoulCatchers, 2008. In the studio, a framed poster from Oka Doners 1975 Burial Pieces exhibition in Detroit hangs above a work table. In 1981, with a husband and two young boys in tow, Doner made the move to New York, where she bought a spacious loft in Soho that she calls her laboratory for living. By 1987, she won a contest for the New Yorks Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to create a new subway station by submitting oversize plans for Radiant Site. Thus began her legacy of public installations. In 1963, Oka Doner left Florida for the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. It manifests itself in dreams and fantasy, poetry and art."[29]. Theyre not answerable. This steel work table is covered with what Oka Doner refers to as shapes and forms of interest, models for old and new projects. "[10], Oka Doner received a Bachelor of Science and Design from the University of Michigan (1966), a M.F.A. MS. SHEA: Right. There were burials in that Natufian culture. And when I was a teenager being told you cant smoke cigarettes in public. A one-person show at the Detroit Institute of Arts followed in 1977. The high shine of the terrazzo floor, long associated with Miami's art deco, presents a gleaming visual allusion to the water surrounding the city. Her public she prefers Lewis Mumfords term civic artworks had something of a domino effect. And I let people touch everything here. Consistently, her design work has focused on a desire to re-dignify daily life by instilling an awareness of ritual. Growing up in Miami Beach, where her father was a judge and then the mayor, Oka Doner loved watching him preside over the courtroom, but it was his passion for the outdoors that had the deepest impact. Radiant Site, at New York's Herald Square Subway and A Walk on the Beach at . Oka Doner calls the library, designed by Erich Theophile in 1990, the heart of the loft. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, one of the nation's most significant sculpture and botanic experiences, will host an exclusive exhibition by American artist Michele Oka Doner.Among the most versatile artists working today, Oka Doner is widely celebrated for her exquisitely beautiful public commissions as well as sculpture, prints, jewelry and functional objects that are now found . I didnt think about comfort., Perhaps most remarkable is that, although she lives in the most urban of American cities, Oka Doner remains firmly connected to the natural world. Student Consumer Information (HEOA) | Emergency Management | Careers at FIU | Equal Opportunity Programs & Diversity The late architect Morris Lapidus said of "Celestial Plaza," "By laying these forms at our feet, she encourages us to stop and search the sparkling expanse for landmarks just as we would search the night sky. I can still go to the Everglades, take a walk on the beach, soak in the ocean, and watch the gulls fight over a fish. The work consists of 9,000 brass and mother of pearl sculptures inspired by the flora and fauna of Miami Beach. What did you learn in school that had an impact on your career? One featuring cast-bronze sculptures embedded in the floor of the Evanston, Illinois, public library, for instance, begat another, for the Sacramento Central Library. I have grains. She grew up in Miami, as a member of a privileged family, but she is one of those people who would have been what they are regardless of background. even ancient starfish, she says. . Towering works on paper hang near round bronze tables surrounded by circular benches and topped with monumental, branchlike candelabra, all of her own making. In art he also said, and I love this, he said other than humankind, art is the only other thing that has an intelligible voice, which is so beautiful art and design are always in the service of an idea. We interviewed her in her loft in SoHo where she lives with her husband, and, until they grew up, her two sons. Looking to the ocean for yet another source, Oka Doner hopes she and Koblick can one day apply the secrets of growing mother-of-pearl to art. Michele Oka Doner working on A Walk on the Beach, her permanent installation at Miami International Airport, where nine thousand cast-bronze images of sea life are embedded in terrazzo with mother-of-pearl. Oka Doner's father, Kenneth Oka, was elected judge and mayor of Miami Beach during her youth (19451964). [19] These sculptures traveled to the Edinburgh College of Art in conjunction with the Festival in 1973. MS. SHEA: Ah. "[3], In 20092010, Oka Doner installed SoulCatchers, approximately 400 shamanistic sculptures in the kiln room at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactury, Munich, Germany. Hand drawn pencil sketch of a phoenix the fantasy bird , colored and with purple shadow. Id have [an assistant or two] with a heat gun clean the edges. Princepton University DIA Exhibit 1976 U of M 1994 Rados Cranbrook Hologram Exhibition 1969 Intuitive Alphabet Collectors Wave Torsos Eden Rocks NYT Thorn Man Caio Disarming Images Radiant Table Strategic Misbehavior There was this woman sitting opposite me and I couldnt take my eyes off her, her clothes, her jewelry, which looked like a sparkling, fossilized sea urchin stretched around her wrist. Then came Death Mask on the cover of Generation, the Universitys avant-garde magazine, although it wasnt exactly what she had intended. top. WineCountryAccents $9.98 Porcelain Red Pomegranate Vase - Original - Made To Order ), I wanted to come in and be part of the dialogue, Oka Doner says. Around the perimeter, shes arranged several hand-blown and etched glass pieces she made for Steuben as well as, red wax casts she refers to as hands, and a tangle of sterling silver that resembles table coral. When I movedfrom Miamito Michigan in 1963, I hadspentmany summersinEurope, and I had seen what I call the room as a work of art, she says. Michele Oka Doner (American, B. The interior designer and the architect teamed up on a warm, contemporary Bay Area home that's in tune with its surroundings. The undulating, mosaic-like pattern could be the depiction of geologic terrain, the surface of a piece of granite or basalt, the body of a sponge resting on a seabed, or a thousand other things. Its why we all stop when we see the lightening to hear the thunder, the dialogue in a way between electricity and violence. Its an angry response to their not being cared for. A lot of people go through life never really feeling awake. They are not neutral. The. . I dont scuba dive. In the early 1980s she moved with her family to Manhattan and began working on larger-scale sculpture, often in bronze. It was the International Geophysical Year [IGY], a pause in hostilities during the Cold War, and a time to think about the family of nature, the family of scientists in the East and the West, and the taxonomic relationships that keep things in order. | SASHA MASLOV PHOTO. Oka Doners large Palm Book (19 by 13 1/4 inches), consists of bound pages of abaca in which palm leaves and shreds of palm, leaves have been absorbed into paper, underscoring endless possibilities of patterns, colors, and textures. 1945) "Black Form #1", 1971 MICHELE OKA DONER (NE EN 1945) Grande coupe sculpture "Pressed bowl", en faence, circa 1964, forme de l'assemblage de plaques. Leaning against the center wall is The Wounded Healer. She took to clay right away because it felt like wet sand. The back corner of the studio, whose 1885 floor has never been refinished, functions as a storehouse for objects and papers, as well as the wax burners and rubber mats for working wax. So he is in service of my response to Nancy Voss. Annie Leibovitz is coming to photograph me next week, she says casually. Return to Projects. Michele Oka Doner. Here, Oka Doner is using hot wax to create one of her Burning Bush lighting pieces. A Day at the Beach Marcel Alcal, Fernando Botero, Katherine Bradford, Red Grooms, Alex Katz, Julio Larraz, Quentin James McCaffrey, Michele Oka Doner, Tom Otterness, Jackson Pollock July 14 - September 11, 2021 News Michele Oka Doner commissioned by The City of Miami Beach Arts Resilient 305 April 23, 2022 It was the creation of Tattooed Porcelain Dolls, which featured disfigured baby dolls with disturbing tattoos, that first got attention as an anti-Vietnam war statement. Encircling it is her artists book Into the Mysterium, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name. New York Social Diary created in 2001 serves as a social, historical, and cultural chronicle of life in New York City. Several contain a mixture of organic and inorganic materials: sandpaper, fragments of an old polaroid photograph, rubbings from a Roman button found in Spain, a vacuum cleaner filter, fabric from a family couch, tests for different paint colors, and bark and root scraps left over from a recent work on paper. New York, NY "Is an American artist and author. I wrote only a two-paragraph proposal, she says, describing her idea to create an inversion, to descend into light instead of darkness., Her concept for Radiant Site, meant to give commuters a rare moment of Zen, comprised a 165-foot passageway whose walls were covered with 11,000 ceramic tiles in varying shades of gold. The same sensitivity to light was the wellspring of her design for the Miami City Ballets underwaterthemed Midsummer Nights Dream. . Over the years she has added wax models and organic materials to the display. 2:58 min. Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans over five decades. Oka Donors most recent book,Everything Is Alive, was published in September, 2017 byRegan Arts (Phaidon Press). She rises from her chair and returns with a small fossil stone inscribed with the forms of tiny ancient invertebrates, a gift from an old friend. Jan 27, 2021 - Explore prema's board "Michelle Oka Doner" on Pinterest. For Michele shopping and links, go to SLU: http://stylelik.eu/1m8eoye Buy Our New Book,. The pieces remained under water for about three years. A barefoot girl. Ann Arbor, where she also met her husband, Fred, and stayed to raise a family, had been covered with water 350 million years ago. Oka Doner received a Bachelor of Science and Design from the . IGY oriented her toward self-curated collections: shells and stones found on the beach and organized in rows like little friends, or her white stoneware raku Seeds and Pods spread evenly within an invisible square. The Japanese: Their cups were their works of art, she says. ", Castro, Jan Garden. It was beautifully written. In 1981, she and her husband, Frederick, then an advertising executive, moved with their two young sons to New York, lured by Sohos spacious live/work lofts and tight-knit art world. Unmistakably beautiful at 71, Oka Doner says she never gave her appearance much thought. Almost three hundred of Oka Doners porcelain Soul Catchers are mounted as sentries on the curving wall of the entranceway. Im back to the figures, for five, six years now, which has just been a wonderful lifetime exploration and these figures are even more evocative because I met a woman named Nancy Voss who has whats called the Voss Invertebrate Museum at the University of Miami. Youre coming into my cave, the artist warns teasingly, then continues, and this is a cave. Commissioned by the Santa Monica Arts Commission. (Now retired, Fred manages the business side of his wifes studio. Her first chair came about because she had two pieces left from Celestial Plaza, a commission for the American Museum of Natural History, so she put them together. Michele Oka Doner's work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world. Did you make a conscious decision to buck the tide? 2003 Ramljak, Susanne, Arthur Danto, Morris Lapidus, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. She hasnt left many stones unturned, but there are always new things on the horizon for her. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans five decades. Her work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world. I used to look at it, and one day she gave it to me, Oka Doner says. Shown at Miami Art Basel 2011. Part of what art is, is finding the questions wonderfully baffling and trying to answer them in some profound and fundamental way. And Ive got a new mural going up in the Apogee, she says referring to Relateds Apogee project in Hollywood. Oka Doner, Michele and Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Oka Doner, Michele. The studio is a vast and elegant space with sixteen-foot ceilings, a wall of double-height windows, fluted neoclassical cast-iron columns encircled by white-painted radiators, and an upper mezzanine from which you can look down on an abundance of chairs, benches, and tables, including pieces by Carlo Bugatti and an ultramodern table that was a fiftieth birthday present from her friend, collector Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Everything in the open area has been introduced with intentionality, positioned with the same balance and asymmetrical symmetry as the stars and space matter that seem to float across Celestial Objects. Initially, I started walking the beach and picking up things I thought would make interesting pieces. East-facing windows in the dining room provide fantastic light all day and the occasional glimpse of the moon in the evening, according to Oka Doner. She has elegantly translated these rudimentary forms into real objects of art."[24]. We know your time is valuable. Oka Doner is a gracious hostess and you can tell immediately shes both intrepid and slightly shy. When artist Michele Oka Doner was growing up in Miami Beach in the 1940s, fires burned continuously in the nearby Everglades. "The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, public art, furniture, jewelry and functional objects. It is about things you cant see, cells in the water, bits of coral under a microscope, algae, seaweeds and shells, says Doner describing the oeuvre. Its the mixture of these particulars plus extraordinary design intelligence, huge energy, and, I suspect, a heaping dose of obsessiveness that make her work exceptional. Following graduation, she stayed in Michigan, building a kiln herself in her backyard and finding success with shows at the Detroit Institute of Arts and PS1 in New York. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, drawing, public art, functional objects, video, artist books, and costume and set design. We sat together on a Citra bench, a giant slab of tropical almond wood that positioned us at precisely the right distance from the books and from one another. MS. OKA DONER: And my parents lived there. Now based in New York City, the artist has work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Muse des . Michele Oka Doner and Frederick Doner attend Party on THE HIGH LINE and Summer Dinner at High Line on June 21, 2010 in New York City. "8 Wonders of Miami." We know your time is valuable. rabbit and bird . 1945, Miami Beach) is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans four decades. I like to take things our ancestors did and explore all the possibilities, she says. We need to. Not long ago I visited Oka Doner at her remarkable New York SoHo loft, which occupies the entire second floor of a historic cast-iron building and where she lives with her husband, Frederick Doner, and raised their two now grown sons. | SASHA MASLOV PHOTO. Its such great theater. These are the same things that shaped her art career, which started in earnest when she entered the University of Michigan in 1963, where, she notes, Craig Robins and Jorge Perez also graduated. See available sculpture, design, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist. Select the department you want to search in What was your first awareness of art and when did it become a passion for you? Production team; Nick Merrick, Director; Athan Merrick, Director of Photography/Editor; Cliff Shapiro and Tom Harris, Grip. But she also believes these efforts parallel the role of art in prehistoric times. | SASHA MASLOV PHOTO, The Poetry Cart is a small library trolley made of cast and fabricated bronze, which the artist uses to hold volumes of, poetry and handmade artists books shes constructed from scraps of upholstery, snippets of paper, foraged and found objects as, random as a salesmans wood samples. dia. The pieces were produced in Munich at Nymphenburg for an installation in the historic kilns. | STUDIO LHOOQ PHOTOS/COURTESY PREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI, Oka Doner designed shimmering costumes and scenery for the Miami City Ballets 2016 production of, A Midsummer Nights Dream, with choreography by George Balanchine. 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