Nancy Harvey

Red Boat mixed media My work regularly touches on the intersection between the cognitive and the creative: in the place between wakefulness and dreaming; reality and suspension of disbelief; or skepticism and mystery. I have long been troubled by our culture’s penchant to favor cognitive learning over the creative. I’ve read with interest the results of some of the recent studies on creativity. Many many of them show that interaction between the creative and cognitive areas of the brain is vital to human development. By understanding more about the brain it is easier for me to comprehend how someone with…