The goal of this publication is to share the journeys of our authors and creators as they explore their experience. We present writings, reflections and artistic pieces to inspire new ideas, new explorations, and new questions, sparking opportunities to tap into the richness and multidimensionality of experience.
Every work presented here is a work in progress, because creative inquiry never settles on a final answer. We embrace the unfolding of insight without being bound by its conclusions. This is a playground, where creators and viewers can enjoy knowledge, celebrate its appearance, and move with the flow: what is my experience as I engage this piece? Is it changing? How do I know?
A re-imagination by Jonathan Clewley, based on a yearlong study with Caroline Sherwood. Synopsis of a novel aid for Creative Inquiry Those who have not
If reality was like a painting, would you try to enter the imaginary space of the painting, or would you pull aside the canvas to catch the painter in the act of creation?
Think of a painter as someone who attempts to capture reality. Not in a way that is most truthful to pure and plain existence, but
All art is a process of capturing the past, the present and the future in one moment. It’s a conversation I’m involved in. The more I listen, the more it opens.
Sharing some personal reflections in response to the massacres at Tops grocery store and Robb Elementary school.
When aspects of the self are in a state of separation, full embodiment of one’s experience remains elusive, and our inner evolution slows to a state of suspension.
I hate the smell of acrylic on my spoon as I scoop breakfast. This morning I had aubergine with a titanium white side. And when
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE The Comte de Saint-Germaine exclaimed, “They forget I wrote Shakespeare’s plays!” Like every story, this one flirted With the idea of
glamorous painter painting a reality changing at your will through your eyes, let me see the paints of your artistic world metaphysical being, show me
Creating the illusion of space
When painting
Is
A
Matter of shades.
Recognizing the illusion in space
When living
Is
A
Matter of practice.
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