Book Reading: The Adjacent Possible: Evolve Your Art. From Blank Canvas To Prolific Artist
The book reading starts at 4:25.
The Adjacent Possible book is about the art and science of the possible- evolving your art, cultivating your fullest self-expression and getting to the elusive deepest work your heart yearns to create.
Quieting the inner critic, being able to take big risks, make mistakes and continually experiment- this is how you innovate.
Feel released and liberated to not only create, but embrace “ugly” art. This is how novel things emerge- they don’t come from the known but from the unknown.
The Adjacent Possible is about bringing visibility to the invisible, shining light around corners, noticing what you’ll pursue from experimentation.
You have a dream but you don’t know how to bring it to life. It has lain fallow for years, like a dormant seed, sleepy in the cold earth, waiting for sustenance. waiting for you to bring it alive.
Being an artist is about continually evolving your art. It’s about cultivating your fullest self-expression and getting to the elusive deepest work your heart yearns to create.
Learn the science of creativity, the adjacent possible
This is a revolutionary method influenced by groundbreaking research in biology and physics to guide you to embrace the unfolding of your art.
Every brushstroke, every decision in your art, creates a set of possible paths that were not only invisible before, but didn’t exist before you made that creative move. This is the adjacent possible.
This book will:
- guide you to evolve your art
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nudge you to create art that excites, scares and wows you
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inspire you to move past emulating not only others, but yourself in your art
Becoming a great artist is about the movement of coming closer to who you are and reaching the fullest expression of YOU in your art.
With one foot in the known and one foot in the unknown, you’ll become aware of your creative edge where the adjacent possible lives.
At the pivot point between creation and collapse, you’ll experience a state of poised instability. This is the art and science of the possible- a world of continuous creation.
Nancy Hillis, M.D. is an abstract artist, Stanford trained existential psychiatrist and best-selling author of The Artist’s Journey®: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity. She helps artists transform their art from the inside out, operating from the conviction that artistic creation has as much to do with psychology as with the medium of expression.
She’s been featured in Inc. and The New York Observer. She lives in Santa Cruz, California and enjoys conversations on art, science and the generation of novelty in the universe with her partner, theoretical physicist Dr. Bruce Sawhill, as well as listening and watching her daughter, Kimberly, sing Puccini arias and compose Scandinavian folk tunes for cello.
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Sound compelling? If you enjoyed the reading, you’ll love the book.
Get your copy HERE.
With gratitude from my studio to yours,
Nancy
P.S. Get the ebook HERE. After reading the book, please leave a review on Amazon here: It makes a big difference and is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
cONGRATS! I always enjoy your thoughtful and intelligent discussions on art and anything else you hop off the trail to examine and expound on. Your generous sharing of insight and humour and practical knowledge is a welcome vessel in the great ( and not so great ) sea of the netscape. I will be waiting for the time when you make a hard copy version available to those of us who have not yet adjusted to this century . TKS-jc
Thank you so much for your lovely and thoughtful note, Janet! It’s finally here- the print version just got published on Amazon today. Yay!
Warmly,
Nancy
Already started to read 🤩
Yay! Thank you Valerie!!! Hope you enjoy it!
Warmly,
Nancy
Nancy, I absolutely loved your reading, I wish I could hear the whole book by audio.
Thankyou for sharing.
Julia, Thank you!!! I’m delighted that you loved the reading. Well, that’s a possibility- creating an audiobook.
I appreciate your lovely note.
Warmly,
Nancy
This has been so fun to be a part of, and I so like listening to Nancy’s voice. The dramatic and heartfelt reading reminds me of a circle of children listening raptly to a story.
Thank you Bruce! Yes! So fun discussing stories and the intersection of art, science, the adjacent possible, mathematics, psychology & creativity with you!
Kindle only? Sorry, not for me. Give me the old fashioned way of paper and print.
Hi Cathy,
I understand. I like paper and print too. The print book will be released soon and I’ll announce it here.
Warmly,
Nancy