Evolve: A Children's Book for Adults

by Jean-Pierre Weill

EVOLVE takes readers on a philosophical journey that explores the age-old question -- who am I?

EVOLVE unpacks three foundational stories from the book of Genesis in the hopes of answering where we come from and where we might choose to go, and offers a liberating message: our deepest purpose is to be free, co-creative participants in our world.

EVOLVE presents a vision for what it might mean to be free, interlacing words with pictures that plummet to the core and take the reader on a journey that words or pictures could not achieve on their own. As with every great children's book, EVOLVE can be explored again and again, yet it is in every way a book for adults, challenging our thinking about what it means to be an adult.

EVOLVE is like a great pop song, seemingly wholly new with a message we have always known. It is a book to share quietly and meditate over with someone you love. It lightheartedly invites the reader to be serious with a serious topic. EVOLVE is a book that heals. It is a landscape of the human psyche and an essay on the transformative power of language. It is an invitation, an experience.

Genres: Art

196 pages, Hardcover

First published December 7, 2021

About the author

Jean-Pierre Weill is a painter and writer of picture-books for adults that explore philosophical and spiritual ideas. Weill was born in France and raised in New York, and he received his BA from St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD. Weill is the creator of vitreography, a unique mode of painting and drawing in 3-dimensional multi-level glass paintings; his work has sold in hundreds of galleries and museum outlets throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and he has designed original works for Disney Art Editions, Inc., Warner Bros Co., and Coca-Cola, Inc. Weill published his first book, The Well of Being: A Children’s Book for Adults (Macmillan, 2013) to critical acclaim. Weill currently lives in Jerusalem.

Reviews

[Peter Finn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the combination of the art and the thoughts about life.

[Daniel Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Evolve is a biblical story that is based on book of Genesis and stories of the Bible that makes you think. It was a bold interpretation of the Bible and quite sad that it was written it another way learning from the author’s experience. I think it’s another example of the warning signs of our times.