Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 March 2024
What I’d discovered was the source of my creativity, my leitmotif, my creative colostrum.
genius loci digest
This digest revels in the in-between, the transitional, the presence of absence. My camera with its dials and knobs and sharp focus has taken me into the blur of things. It has taught me that because things can't be measured it doesn't mean that it isn't there. The spirit of things, the essence of our places is as real as my shutter button.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 15 March 2024
Both Ben, with his careful craftsmanship and Austin with his seasonal perspective, live in a time-space with a longer view - a time that is qualitative rather than quantitive, and more importantly, one that pulls into the frame our future generations.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 8 Mar 2024
But, out of the horror and destruction of the blitz has emerged something quite remarkable: a huge swathing, pulsing galaxy of bricks. Here the cut of the frog and arris is softened by the wave’s embrace.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 1 Mar 2024
These conservators, these minimal interventionists, aren’t simply curators of the paint pot and infill, but also guardians of a rich cultural tapestry that teaches us what it means to be human.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 23 Feb 2024
This is a story that moves beyond virtual reality - one that includes the observer and a dimension of time that flows within a structure that is a portal in more ways than one.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 Feb 2024
What buildings like St. Mary represent is a vast cognitive reserve, a wondrous and sophisticated cosmos of quivering emotional intelligence. This building is full of tiny signatures, a lexicon that betrays the aggregate human attempt at survival in the desperation of a crisis.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 Feb 2024
From the ground zero of my breakdown there came about a remarkable journey of enlightenment, of change, of fresh perspectives. Out of the flux of the horror of finding myself cocooned on my bedroom floor, there emerged a new person.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 2 Feb 2024
If you listen carefully, there are nooks that still echo the sounds of people that toiled here once. They are sounds that reside within the nominology of place. It is a prose wrenched from the ice, grit and shale of the valley.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 26 Jan 2024
Each and every building in Lavenham has a story to tell, either within the pattern of the dragon post or writ large within a wall.