In this book preview, see beautiful, rarely seen up close marine creatures unfold before your eyes, photographed by the internationally renowned artist, Michele Oka Doner, with Aaron Yassin. Her magic book-in-a-box, "Into the Mysterium" features nearly 100 of the gorgeous, but endangered marine creatures the artist discovered among the one million specimens collected at the University of Miami's Marine Invertebrate Museum, Prof. Nancy Voss, Director. Watch and you will see breathtaking marine specimens emerge, one after another. Literally, an out-of-the-box presentation. Michele is the artist who created the mile long bronze in terrazzo concourse, "A Walk on the Beach" at Miami International Airport," among dozens of other public art projects throughout the U.S. With this magical gift box, she returns to her birthplace to dive once again into the mysteries of oceanic and tropical life.
Reviews:
"For nearly all of her 91 years, my mother loved the sea. If she were still alive, for Mother's Day this year I'd bring her the exquisite boxed accordion book of Michele Oka Doner’s mermaid-magical color photographs, Into the Mysterium." Mindy Alof, Washington Independent Review of Books.**
"A banquet for your eyes to feast upon. Not only are Doner's pictures exquisitely captured, but the prose she creates is poetically carved with such intelligence that it is beautiful to read as well. A long foldout adventure for the eyes. I would recommend this for anyone who appreciates the unique and complicated miracle that is life in the ocean and those who enjoy this artistic style, which is nature photography at its finest." - Kathleen, Good Reads
"Wow, this was no ordinary book. First the pictures clear and inviting so lively and wonderous, spoke volume(s), (the) volume of our ocean creatures, specimens. marine life." Darlene Cruz, GoodReads***
From the Publisher, Regan Arts:
Beneath the waves of our marine planet are millions of remarkable creatures—beautiful big whales, dangerous sharks, legions of phytoplankton—but also, perhaps least known, are the marine invertebrates who make up an essential part of marine life. At the University of Miami, Florida, one museum is devoted to the study of Atlantic and Eastern Pacific marine invertebrates—nearly one million specimens. Many of them were pulled from the Gulf of Panama, throughout the Caribbean, the Florida Keys, and the eastern Pacific over the last fifty years. They represent creatures that may never be seen again as the oceans grow ever more polluted and as global warming wreaks havoc on these ecosystems. Here, in lavishly beautifully photographs, nearly 100 of the rarest, most wondrous, mystifying, and entrancing specimens are brought into the light. From deep water corals, to sea lilies, to Portuguese man o’ war, marine algae and rare jellyfish, these invertebrates leave one gasping again at the extraordinary beauty and mystery of our world.
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Photos: © 2016 Aaron Yassin & Michele Oka Doner
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