The Adjacent Possible® Blog

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 of process is resistance to stasis. ― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey into America   Perhaps it helps to break it down into pieces. There's more to starting than starting itself. It's all the good things...

As an artist and psychiatrist, I get to work with thousands of artists all over the world and what I see is a recurring theme of artists feelings like their art doesn’t quite measure up to what they want it to be.

This is what I’m going to talk about in my upcoming free training: 3 Massive Mistakes Even Professional Artists Make That Cause Them To Not Like Their Art. 

The adjacent possible is not permanent, it is fluid and constantly reconfiguring. 

Alone & Together in Life & Art   Alone together in the Church of Blue Lake Tahoe is one of my favorite places on Earth. I never get tired of staring at the improbably immense expanse of blue, constantly changing color by sun angle, wind, and reflections of clouds and surrounding mountains. It is never the same twice, ranging through aquas and teals and cobalt blue and ultramarine.     An old friend of mine and I swam almost three miles today, crossing our personal...

What happens in the existential drama of an individual painting is a small mirror of the forces at work in the entire culture. But it can be a powerful and illuminating mirror.

The lesson is to stumble with your eyes open, to listen to the birdsong amongst the din, to realize that miracles can be fast as well as slow.

Restless motion runs through my veins, hot oil and hurtling metal. So it’s not surprising that transportation was the lure that caught this fish.

We decided to do a real science experiment for the camera. We start with the Adjacent Possible and end up balancing on one foot.