Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 June 2024
As I walk through the streets of Lynn, it feels as though a switch in my brain has been turned on.
material culture
Objects that are saturated with meaning
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☀️ Eustace Collection: Pie and Pudding People
We must cherish and protect these places as if our lives were etched upon it.
☀️ Eustace Collection: People Like Us
Churches remind us of how normal people like us relentlessly hacked, carved, forged, daubed, etched and wove our way out of the unremitting labyrinth of threats to the human condition.
☀️ Eustace Collection: 1620
Weighed down with the complexities of modernity, I stand before the porch of St. Peter and St. Paul and take on the mantra of Bacon's Novum Organum.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Atom
I place my thumb upon the latch and press. It makes a delicious ‘click and clump.’ I think of the person I’ve just seen walk in through the door before me. They pressed it too.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The Ghost Signs at the Queen's Stores, Liverpool
Andy Marshall's Treasure Hoard Gazetteer.
A Year in the Life: 10 February 2022
Because I work from a camper van, I’m used to the odd flannel wash, and there has been occasions where I’ve missed that procedure all together...
🟦 Sine Loco - The Full Index
This post records our material culture in abstract and is regularly updated with new images.
Sine Loco - C15th brass eagle lectern, Chipping Campden
Material Culture in Abstract From the sublime to the (supposedly) mundane - our material culture throughout the British Isles is a palimpsest of artefacts that reflect our endeavour to create beautiful things from every material at hand. This post records our material culture in abstract. MEMBERS ONLY...