☀️ Eustace Collection: Pie and Pudding People
We must cherish and protect these places as if our lives were etched upon it.
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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.
⛫ The Cast Room: Choir Stall Fish Finial at St. Mary, Ashwell
Welcome to my virtual Cast Room. On my travels, I've been taking augmented reality casts of things that appeal to me. The Cast Room is inspired by the Cast Courts of the V&A which hold a vast selection of casts taken of great works of art all over the globe. Members Only.
☀️ 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.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 Jan 2024
Who’d have thought a humble phone call might be so significant? That literacy, language and poetry might be key to underpinning our common humanity? Every English teacher and lecturer should shout it from the rooftops.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 Jan 2024
That such an exotic thing with Angkor Watt curves can be hidden within the ballast of a grim winter's day is quite remarkable.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Face
There is a face peeping out from behind the flaking limewash.
Be there: Kilpeck, Herefordshire in glorious VR
Kilpeck in Herefordshire is home to the remarkable Romanesque church of St. Mary and St. David.
Comperandum - Misericords
A nod to Banister Fletcher: Misericords