by Nancy Hillis | Sep 17, 2023
The Adjacent Possible Guidebook: Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal A bluebird showed up the other day. Our newest book, The Adjacent Possible: Guidebook & Stories Of Artistic Transformation won an International Book Award: Reader’s Favorite Gold...
by Nancy Hillis | Sep 10, 2023
Abstract Painting, Fiction & The Adjacent Possible Sunrise and Fog. A couple of days ago, a fine early autumn morning, Nancy and Bruce beheld a surprising visual phenomenon. We saw the sun emerge from a typical morning coastal fog bank, a hazy disk. For a...
by Nancy Hillis | Sep 3, 2023
Dreams Never Die It’s never too late. This last Thursday was a red-letter day for Bruce and his last advisee, a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After about ten-and-a-half years, he finally had a PhD thesis worked up enough to...
by Nancy Hillis | Aug 27, 2023
Small Worlds, Kevin Bacon & The Adjacent Creative As anyone who has followed our blogs (and books) knows, the concept of adjacency and the adjacent possible as a key component of creativity comes up very often. Today we will approach the inverse of that...
by Nancy Hillis | Aug 20, 2023
Art, Science & The Light From Prometheus’ Fire Last week we had a “city adventure,” making our way 75 miles north to the concrete canyons and spectacular views of San Francisco. We felt like Rip van Winkle, emerging blinking into the light after more...
