Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 August 2024
All the best things are double-baked—in this case, built and built again. Many of the stones that have held up the walls for over 1,300 years were tooled and carved by the hands of Romans.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 July 2024
Inside the nave, the vaulting is a vast geometry caught in Medusa’s gaze, but here the softened, soapy Caen unfurls fern-like.
📍Loci: Contre-Jour
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📍Loci: Carlisle Cats
Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 Dec 2023
Whilst I walk along High Street, the buildings are tinted with a golden hue. As the sky softens, I can sense the day turning in on itself, the light tempered, beaten and bossed into thinness. This golden hour is turning blue.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Wells Cathedral Light Refinery
Across a building extruded from the Triassic and Jurassic this isn't just a parable of faith, but also the story of the cosmos itself and our part in it.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 Sep 2023
"Like a precious baubled ring, the carving becomes the clawed setting, the movement of light upon it the jewel."
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 July 2023
Stopping and taking time to observe is an act of faith in the material truth that surrounds us. It washes away the fake news, discomfort and confusion of present times and helps me feel rooted.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 May 2023
After spending prolonged days wrestling with the light through my viewfinder, I’ve experienced a kind of photo-serotonin effect, as if a transfusion has taken place resulting in an inner glow, unable to stop chattering; a feeling of being baptised with the splendour of it.