Process as Ritual

“I am an artist and I pursue that way of being. From a very young age I was drawing on my own and I was able to be very accurate. People were shocked that I could be so accurate, but I never thought I could make a career of art.”

Jablonski went to Youngstown State University to play basketball and volleyball and run track. But when she took a ceramics class she got caught up in the energy of it.

Fascinated by the dualities in nature, in mathematics and in words, Jablonski is thoroughly engaged by natural shapes and forms. She considers the intellectual, the cultural and the spiritual. She thinks, feels, believes and behaves in a special way, a ritual process of thinking and believing. In her journal she refers to a Joseph Campbell quote:  “New metaphors emerge in a modern medium for the old universal truths.”

If Jablonski’s work could be categorized, it would be in terms of ritual art. Process as ritual. “Process is very important,” she says. “It’s ritual.” The Process is as much the art as the objects she makes.