{"id":68529,"date":"2025-10-29T21:55:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=68529"},"modified":"2025-10-29T21:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:55:50","slug":"an-ordinary-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/an-ordinary-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ordinary Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Istanbul, Turkey.<\/em> <strong>\u201cSteiner100\u201d exhibition: Words from Waldorf educator and art teacher Ba\u015fak Topkaya.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized that creating art is as natural as the flow of life, belongs to everyone, and is an ordinary experience. Through anthroposophy and art, I internalized that art emerges naturally from within us, beyond its technical aspects, and that we are the true instruments of art. Steiner says that art is a bridge that connects the physical world and the spiritual world, and I started to look at art, creation, and search for myself from different perspectives. The best chance I had to observe this, other than myself, was with the children at the kindergarten. I was deeply moved by the simplicity with which they felt the need to paint, draw, and then return to play. I continue my journey, inspired by the children and the colors of anthroposophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/egitimsanatidostlari.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Waldorf Giri\u015fimi \u0130stanbul<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image<\/strong>\u00a0Ba\u015fak Topkaya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Turkey. \u201cSteiner100\u201d exhibition: Words from Waldorf educator and art teacher Ba\u015fak Topkaya. I realized that creating art is as natural as the flow of life, belongs to everyone, and is an ordinary experience. Through anthroposophy and art, I internalized that art emerges naturally from within us, beyond its technical aspects, and that we are the true instruments of art. Steiner says that art is a bridge that connects the physical world and the spiritual world, and I started to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22198,"featured_media":68105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9097,8820,8812],"tags":[11714,11715,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-68529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-news","category-pedagogy","tag-ausgabe-41-2025-en","tag-english-issue-44-2025","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}