Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity
By Esther Lightcap Meek, Foreword by Makoto Fujimura, Illustrations by Martyn Smith
"A doorway is a hospitable invitation to a farther world, and to a more deeply integrative shalom. It beckons beyond; it beckons within."
Available in Print, Ebook and Audiobook
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Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being.
Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing and thriving in artistry. Doorway reflects on the real and how we are involved with it, especially in our creative effort. In short, the real hospitably welcomes us, and in our artistry we reciprocate in noble courtesy. Human persons were made for this communion with the real. Find in this book a hospitable welcome to belong at home beyond where you are. Order your copy:
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Available on Apple Books, Audible, Audiobooks.com, Downpour, Google Audiobooks, Libro.fm, Kobo and many others.
"Reel" Conversations about Doorway to Artistry!
Philosopher Amber Bowen interviews me about Doorway to Artistry in four short parts.
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“Tell us a little about Doorway to Artistry."
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“You use your house as a metaphor for reality and your response to it, inviting the reader into your home through the pages of this book. Tell us more about that."
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“What are your hopes for this book?"
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“Who is this book's audience?"
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“I can't remember ever using the word 'rollicking' to describe a work of philosophy. In Doorway to Artistry, Esther Meek has (once again!) rolled up the heavy rug of academic language and invited us all over to dance in her living room.” — Dawn Cerny, artist
Endorsements
"Esther Meek's new book warmly enacts the very welcome into reality it proposes to teach and treats the reader like an honored guest. Deeply philosophical without ever losing contact with the most ordinary, concrete things of daily life, these festive meditations will not only inspire artists, but will inspire everyone else to become artists. This will be a book one feels lucky to have discovered-and then immediately sends as a gift to friends."
D. C. Schindler, professor of metaphysics and anthropology,
The John Paul II Institute
The John Paul II Institute
"I can't remember ever using the word 'rollicking' to describe a work of philosophy. In Doorway to Artistry, Esther Meek has (once again!) rolled up the heavy rug of academic language and invited us all over to dance in her living room."
Dawn Cerny, artist
"At the fertile intersection of what earlier scholars called the contemplative and the active modes of life, Esther Meek has laid an extravagant feast. With Doorway to Artistry, she models a new, munificent style of scholarship for the whole human person, offering from her apparently boundless generosity an invitation to be led in a familiar yet unexpected direction: homeward."
Pete Candler, author of The Road to Unforgetting
"For decades, Esther Meek has been practicing philosophical therapy to free us from the modern picture that holds us captive, a picture that estranges us from the abundance of reality. Meek proposes we make contact with reality through artful discovery that strains toward festal communion. We know Meek's delightful new book hits reality because it leaves us with, in a favorite phrase from Michael Polanyi, an 'unspecifiable sense of an inexhaustive range of indeterminate future manifestations.'"
Peter Leithart, president, Theopolis Institute
More about my contributors...
Makoto Fujimura: Nihonga artist Makoto Fujimura has tapped my work in his ventures and invited me into his vision of culture care and Theology of Making. It’s an honor to know him personally and to be a Fujimura Institute Scholar. Thank you, Mako, for contributing D2A’s Foreword. Here, in 2018, we were beginning an innovative presentation in Mako’s studio, intermingled with his live painting, filmed with a select audience. Find his work and wisdom here: www.makotofujimura.com
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Martyn Smith: I’m related to Martyn by virtue of my daughter, Stacey, having married his brother Evan. All the Smiths are artists, and I have pieces of their work. I asked Martyn to illustrate D2A because I was sure that he could make 1124 appear inviting! Photo by Martyn, used with permission. Find his work here: www.xomartynxo.com
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Reviews
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"Doorway to Artistry is a lovely, insanely insightful book. I felt healed by it as I was reading, especially the parts about our basic orientation being joy and affirmation, and all of the content about presence. This book also felt like a parenting 101 guide. Honestly, there's so much here, and it's brilliant—overflowing with great ideas."
Mary K. Lates