by Nancy Hillis | Oct 2, 2022
I think the idea of empty virtuosity comes up more often in music than in painting, but it is everywhere in creative pursuits. And it is deeply related to last week’s critique of art criticism. In music, it is associated with performers who have...
by Nancy Hillis | Sep 25, 2022
For seven years now, we have drawn parallels between art, mathematics, and science. We are careful when we bring up mathematics, because we know that equations can have a toxic effect and scare off artists. But art critique can be even scarier than a few rhos,...
by Nancy Hillis | Sep 17, 2022
Cultivating Your Studio Practice: The Power of Starting Starting is probably the greatest challenge of all creative enterprises. Zero to one, from nothing to something. Why is it so hard sometimes? The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature...
by Nancy Hillis | Sep 11, 2022
Finding Creative Inspiration & Abstraction Last week, we were at a family reunion on a lovely lake just outside of Bellingham, Washington, very close to the Canadian border. It was full of family reunion type things, the babble of conversation, boats...
by Nancy Hillis | Sep 4, 2022
The Adjacent Possible Never Stands Still As some of you may know, our daughter is studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Scotland Like many aspects of the adjacent possible, this would have been very hard to predict not that...
