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About the book >.>.> Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific Kyna Leski tells us the creative process is universal. Artists architects poets inventors scientists and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page the blank screen writer’s block confusion chaos and doubt. In this book Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher student maker writer and architect to describe the workings of the creative process. Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us if we are willing to let it. It is dynamic continually in motion; it starts stops rages and abates ebbs and flows. In illustrations that ac- company each chapter she maps the arc of the creative process by tracing the path of water droplets traveling the stages of a storm. Leski describes unlearning ridding ourselves of preconcep- tions; only when we realize what we don’t know can we pose the problem that we need to solve. We gather evidence-with note- book jottings research the collection of objects-propelling the process. We perceive and conceive; we look ahead without know- ing where we are going; we make connections. We pause retreat and stop only to start again. To illustrate these stages of the pro- cess Leski draws on examples of creative practice that range from Paul Klee to Steve Jobs from the discovery of continental drift to the design of Antoni Gaud?’s Sagrada Familia. (LL)