While in Nova Scotia, I felt that I was in the company of great architects. Many more great architects than I had ever been exposed to in person before. They were great speakers, writers, drawers, they crafted compelling narratives about their work and about their role in catalyzing an architectural team and a client to do something beautiful, meaningful, great.
In trying and failing to write about ghost in a comprehensible way, I very courageously ‘gave myself the summer off.’ While this consisted of not doing much from my to-do list, it also consisted of reflecting on ways to make that to-do list a mile and a half longer!
Distance has helped, but so has the pressure cooker of waiting. Part of why I couldn’t write about GHOST is that I was simply overwhelmed. I couldn’t articulate anything because I had been blown away by how much there was to soak up, and I was saturated. It’s a relief to remember that most of what was presented, and discussed at the dinner table by the rest of us, was a life’s work.
I hoped that by letting it cook, I would be able to convey all the WISDOM. And JOY. And FERVOR, that I was surrounded by at ghost. That I can strive for every day. My questions at the time swirled around what to do with all these convictions?
The speakers brought up a few times a notion they’d been grappling with while planning GHOST – which was to come away with a manifesto of sorts. Perhaps the theme, the desire, the key tenet was, this grappling with how to DO GREAT WORK. How to engage the site, how to engage yourself, materiality, culture. How to create beautiful, compelling spaces, which actually make the world a better place.
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