Ghost Note Agency’s Post

This past Friday was a healthy reminder that sometimes the best ideas come from *an exhale*. Once a month our small Design team picks a city to meet IRL. We break bread, talk about culture, and “co-work”. Now three months in, we decided to name this ritual Collective Breath. Inspired by Paul Chan’s sculptural series *breather*, the Walker Art Center published book we discovered on our latest session offered this on its cover: “I remember asking him. Since you’ve stopped making art, how do you spend your time? And he said: “Oh, I’m a breather, I’m a respirateur, isn’t that enough? He asked: “Why do people have to work? Why do people think they have to work?” That quote rocked us a bit. In a post-COVID world, remote work is a powerful resource for small shops like ours, but some creative energy can only be generated through IRL human connection. And for us being together doesn’t necessarily mean heads-down grind or the typical “productivity” some would deem worthy of investment. Our sessions are about creating *white space* by stepping away, wandering and meeting new people. And trust, the ideas and inspiration soon follow from it. At Ghost Note Agency our intentional curation of shared space and real fellowship are essential to our creative work, and we are actively working to redefine what being together means by establishing new rituals that incorporate intentional rest, or “breathers”, to deepen our Resonance practice. Our work NEEDS to be rooted in connection, new experience, learning, living, and BREATHING together. If you’re curious, our Philly itinerary was: – Breakfast & conversation @ Middle Child Clubhouse – Internal design review in Palmer Park – Tour of the YOWIE Hotel with Philly-based creative legend Octavius Newman – Lunch @ South Philly Barbacoa – Musing over the retrospective of Mavis Pusey’s work @ the Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania. We can’t wait to show you all what we’ve been collecting and how it will shape our work. Our next stop as a team: 📍Wilmington, DE. If you’re from there, or know what’s bubbling creatively, drop us a note in the comments. #Design #TeamCulture #IRL #PostCOVIDWork #Resonance #Philadelphia #Wilmington #GhostNote P.S. - Here's a link to the Paul Chan book: https://a.co/d/5GsjueH