Reflections with Salomé Gómez-Upegui is a podcast about creative alignment. Blending personal insights and conversations with guests, I consider how we connect to our creative selves, devote our lives to what we love, practice discipline, move through doubt, and attune to the divine.
For more than five years, Hilma’s Ghost has fostered learning initiatives and community-building practices that bridge art, mysticism, and feminism. Founded by artists Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray, the collective takes its name from Hilma af Klint, the Swedish mystic and pioneering abstract artist. Yet their mission reaches far beyond her legacy: to reckon with patriarchal art histories and reclaim spirituality as a site of empowerment and liberation.
In this episode, Dannielle and Sharmistha join Salomé to discuss how Hilma’s Ghost came to be, their research-based approach to spiritual matters as “believing skeptics,” their love of Hilma, tarot, and who gets to call themselves a witch, among many other fascinating subjects.
Cover photo by Dulce Pinzón.
10 Aug 2026
Deep K Kailey on Quieting the Mind
Deep Kailey spent years building a glossy, high-powered career in fashion, as the first fashion editor of Vogue India, fashion director of Tatler UK, and right hand to major names in the industry, before a persistent pull toward life's bigger questions changed her trajectory. She left it all behind to co-found Without Shape, Without Form, an arts organization rooted in Sikh philosophy that uses exhibitions, publications, and gatherings to help people quiet their minds.
In this episode, Deep joins Salomé to trace her path from fashion into this work, the personal losses that first opened her up to life's bigger questions, and why traditional forms of success didn't bring the fulfillment she expected. They talk about Simran, a form of meditation, as the anchor of her practice, and the impact she's witnessed in the people who encounter this work. Grounded in Deep's personal journey, it's an eye-opening conversation about centuries-old Sikh traditions and tools that have the power to quiet our minds and reconnect us to source.
https://www.withoutshapewithoutform.com/
29 Jul 2026
Emily Weiner on Presence, Persistence, and Leaps of Faith
Emily Weiner worked many jobs within the art world before giving herself entirely over to painting. She was a writer, a curator, a professor, and many other things in between, until four years ago when she quit her day job to paint full-time. Soon after, everything seemed to fall into place. Today, the New York-born, Nashville-based artist has built an increasingly celebrated practice rooted in intuition and symbolism, reconsidering the art historical canon through crisp, hypnotic canvases and a Jungian, feminist lens.
In this episode, Emily joins Salomé to trace the long, winding road she’s traveled to become an artist, from a childhood fascination with art, through years of searching for her place in the art world. They talk about what it means to stay present with your own creative instincts even when the path isn't clear, why persistence sometimes looks like patience, and how vulnerability and spirituality inform her stunning work.
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