
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 30 June 2023
I have a friend that tells me that I'm an over-sharer. They're probably right - but I find a touch of healing in telling my story.
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
I have a friend that tells me that I'm an over-sharer. They're probably right - but I find a touch of healing in telling my story.
"Before it reaches its location an Oyster Catcher angles in from the west and nudges the bottom of the drone. Instantly it starts to tumble."
Stonehenge is just one element in a larger web of places that live beyond their physical presence. Think of Glastonbury Tor, The Shambles, York and Sutton Hoo.
It feels like there is a kind of aesthetic gravity at play - that I am being drawn into a celestial whirlpool of beautiful things, flying through the cosmic dust of our historic environment only to be sucked into the divine detritus that adorns our churches.
Driving or, indeed walking down to the church at South Huish takes on the aspect of entering another realm for the roads are deeply cut and take you into their own asmosphere - one that muffles sound and bends light.
St. Andrew's, South Huish in Devon is a place for artists and creatives.
After difficult times in my thirties, I found salvation in the vernacular.
Photographing a remarkable building in Broadwell. This is as much your photo shoot as mine!