{"id":72584,"date":"2026-05-22T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=72584"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:20:53","slug":"to-be-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/to-be-interested\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Interested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Philmont, USA.<\/em> What is life like as a young person in today’s world? We asked around. Answers from Natalia Gillespie, currently artist-in-residence at Free Columbia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What do you worry about?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worry about the future of the planet as an interconnected living organism, increasingly poisoned by colonialist corporations and overconsumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do you feel safe?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel safe when I am among people I love, and who love me in an unconditional and supportive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does \u201chome\u201d mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home and safety feel closely connected to me. A home is any place where I feel safe. It doesn’t have to be a fixed location, but rather a feeling I cultivate within myself. Home is the ongoing practice of nurturing love, compassion, empathy, adaptability, and creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is important for you in relationships?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relationships in my life must nurture and support my growth. Right now, I am prioritizing friendships, especially with women, as living, evolving vessels. They require us to show up consistently with creativity, honesty, and passion in order to build abundance and foster growth within ourselves and our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you a role model? And if yes, for whom?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a role model for my younger sisters. I carry a quiet awareness that my actions set an example for them. I try to navigate my experiences, as a woman, artist, older sister, and trailblazer, in a way that I would want them to inherit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who or what inspires you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am inspired by the lineage of women artists, writers, and independent thinkers who have paved the way for me to express myself freely and thoughtfully. I feel a responsibility to continue that lineage by inspiring future generations of artists and community builders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would you most like to develop in yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would like to continue developing my creative will, my capacity for free and informed thinking, and my connection to spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What could you not live without?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could not live without art or my artistic community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When do you feel happy? When do you feel content?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel most content when I am living, as much as possible, in rhythm with nature and in a state of deep observation. This feeling exists both within my body and in my sensory experience of the outer world. I feel content when I notice a sense of gratitude for all the ways my life holds and supports me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What virtue do you value more now \u2013 or less now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I value the virtue of serious engagement with the things we are passionate about. In a time shaped by digital technologies, it\u2019s easy to dabble and adopt identities without deeply engaging with the writing, communities, and work behind them. For me, serious engagement means showing up, to events, to communities, to difficult texts, and taking the time to understand history and context. It also means cultivating interests outside of social media, where there is no pressure to perform. Real engagement requires time, attention, and humility, the willingness to admit we don\u2019t know everything, and to remain curious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have a connection to spirituality? If so, what does that look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My connection to spirituality began with an early obsession with art. I see art as a pathway to the spiritual, a force of transformation that illuminates the mysteries of our existence. This has led me to explore anthroposophy as one of many pathways into the spiritual world, initially through a Waldorf teacher training program that I was drawn to out of a desire to deepen my artistic practice and study something new. I\u2019m interested in what education can be, and how it might be infused with a spiritual understanding of the world. My studio practice feels like a sacred space\u2014one I return to with devotion, pouring in energy without certainty of the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More<\/strong> Natalia Gillespie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation <\/strong>Paula Boslau
Image\u00a0<\/strong>Natalia Gillespie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philmont, USA. What is life like as a young person in today’s world? We asked around. Answers from Natalia Gillespie, currently artist-in-residence at Free Columbia. What do you worry about? I worry about the future of the planet as an interconnected living organism, increasingly poisoned by colonialist corporations and overconsumption. Where do you feel safe? I feel safe when I am among people I love, and who love me in an unconditional and supportive way. What does \u201chome\u201d mean to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19305,"featured_media":72262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9097,8820],"tags":[11797,11798,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-72584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-news","tag-ausgabe-19-2026-en","tag-english-issue-21-2026","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72584","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\/19305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72603,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72584\/revisions\/72603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}