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Dove Drury Hornbuckle our Ceramics Studio Manager
Ursula, 2018, stoneware reduction fired cone 10, 26” D x 15” H
Describe your own art practice.
relativity and thus I can become anything, trans-
I think of my art practice as putting ideas to form.
form myself infinitely, and can choose to take on
It’s an intuitive, spiritual, mysterious, evasive and
more gentler, more affirming, more loving, more
highly rewarding mutable experience. It is also a
proactive aspects of my Being. If I didn’t love myself
desire for communication. The process of creating
a moment ago then I can accept and acknowl-
art is a pathway to truly know myself. To do this I
edge that. That moment has passed, and there is
must be curious, open and present for the innu-
no going back, and that moment will never happen
merable changes of self that occur throughout my
again. So, I am already moving forward and in that
life. In my thinking I continually come back to the
procession can choose to change, with informed
Buddhist concept of Anattā, essentially that there is
intention and training of the mind, in order to bring
no permanent Self.
new realizations into the future of my heart-centered well being.
Making art is like creating a time capsule, the ‘ob-
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ject’ encapsulates the subtle nuances and auto-
When and how did you first come to know Ox-Bow?
biographical elements of myself when I make the
While I was finishing my undergraduate degree at
work. I witness myself through the making of art. I
SAIC, I often heard fellow student’s experiences of
can utilize the artworks that I create as a source
a mysterious place called Ox-Bow. They seemingly
of reflection to think back upon, remember, and
came back from a separate planet, somewhere full
reevaluate who I was when I made the work. Often, I
of messy fun and connectivity. It wasn’t until I fin-
have much more compassion for who I was in hind-
ished my graduate degree at RISD in 2018 that I did
sight, which differs from the ordinary narratives of
further research and applied to be a resident of Ox-
self criticism that I have for who I am in the present.
Bow’s summer fellowship. I perceived the opportuni-
This brings me further into a pathway of under-
ty as this perfect post-degree oasis to recenter my
standing myself also as a human ‘object’ of infinite
practice: that Ox-Bow could be a space to rest and
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