About this item
The Well of Being is an illustrated inquiry into the art of happiness and what it means to be radically alive in our daily moments. Images and a graceful philosophic text invite us to awaken from our constructed stories that we may return to this world and live in the present. The book opens with a perennial account of life's ultimate purpose and concludes with a unique retelling of the puzzle we call growing up. Through art, philosophy, and poetry we are offered a refreshing and empowering way to rethink ourselves. The book is an experience to be felt.
About the Author
Jean-Pierre Weill was born in 1954 to Luce Weill, a writer and teacher of literature,from Normandy, France and to Arthur Klein, an American soldier turned actor, from Carbondale, Pennsylvania. The family moved from Paris to New York, where he was raised with his three sisters. Weill attended St. John's College, in Annapolis, MD (1972- 1976) . He joined Spoken Arts, Inc., a pioneering family recording company, dedicated to producing an audio library of the leading English language writers and poets of the 20th Century reading from their own works.
While dabbling in the visual arts, Weill created a uniquely expressive mode of painting and drawing in 3-dimensional space. He calls his multiple level glass paintings Vitreographs™. His work has sold in hundreds of galleries and museum outlets throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan. He has designed original and limited-edition vitreographs for Disney Art Editions, Inc., Warner Bros Co., and Coca-Cola, Inc..
Weill has recently written The Well of Being. His first book, it is an illustrated inquiry about our journey to adulthood. He lives in Baltimore MD with his wife, Rachel Rotenberg, a sculptor. They have five children.
