by Nancy Hillis | Dec 20, 2020
The Creative Journey Through Darkness Into Light In The Cycles of Creativity we talked about the special properties of this dark time of year, a season that seems drab and dreary and moribund, but is paradoxically anything but. This is a time of...
by Nancy Hillis | Dec 13, 2020
Of Coffee, Creativity, and Immortality I am at a point in life where I do not want to be surrounded by broken things. I’d rather not have the thing at all than it be broken. I want everything to work. The Denial Of Death Perhaps this is a denial...
by Nancy Hillis | Dec 6, 2020
Evolving Your Art: Q & A With Nancy Hillis In this video we explore: Style Premature optimization Not crystallizing too early Small studio spaces The paradoxical power of constraint Constraint drives creativity Moving past non starters The surprise benefits of...
by Nancy Hillis | Nov 29, 2020
Creativity & Fame: From Zero to Infinity Fads are phenomena we’re all familiar with, from a particular child’s toy to a piece of popular music. The artist Andy Warhol famously said, “In the future, everybody will be world-famous for fifteen...
by Nancy Hillis | Apr 12, 2020
The following blog post is constructed from conversations between myself and my partner, Dr. Bruce Sawhill, Stanford educated theoretical physicist and mathematician. Creativity, Mistakes, and the Unknown Unknown What is a mistake? We think of a mistake as a...
