O.D.O, daughter of Polish immigrants, was born in France just before World War 2.
Olga lost her parents very early in life, her father at ten, and her mother at sixteen.
She had two older sisters with whom she lived for the following years. At nineteen, establishing her independence, she married a man whom she considered the love of her life.
They had three beautiful children, but unfortunately divorced after ten years of matrimony due to his unfaithfulness.
After the divorce, Olga worked as an editor at the premier French dictionary Paul Robert, who was in fact the husband of her oldest sister.
Here, she was initiated into an intense diversified cultural circle and Parisian high society, while sustained by her work at the dictionary, conference attendance, and political meetings which she attended regularly.
After six fancy years, Olga chose to retire from “Parisienne” life. Traveling to Mexico, her journey continued until she arrived at a small Mayan fishing village on the Yucatan Peninsula called Chuburna Puerto.
As a guest she lived there, without water or electricity, on the edge of a vast and beautiful deserted beach.
On this beach she collected hundreds and pieces of seashells, impulsively accumulated, as she raved about their beauty — such that she had never seen before.
She lived in this village off and on by choice from thirty six years of age until the end of her natural life, confronted daily by an intellectual desert that she had not fully anticipated. Conversations with the villagers were limited.
It was her art that completed her.
She began to make intricate necklaces from her seashells, created sixty-four magic dolls to represent her own universe, including seventeen characters from French culture, all illustrating figures such as Carmen or Madame de Pompadour.
Thankful to this unique and beautiful art, Olga was able to live forty years in this village with limited cultural or intellectual exchange, and create a magical world.
She survived her isolation in the company of her creations and is buried today in the cemetery of her adopted village.