☀️ Eustace Collection: The Face
There is a face peeping out from behind the flaking limewash.
mental health
Architecture, photography and its relationship to mental health and wellbeing from my own perspective.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 Dec 2023
The photographs act like wormholes into the time they were taken, and are often the instigators of the stories that I tell within this digest; but more than that, amidst bouts of punishing low self-esteem, they remind me that I’m not an imposter, that I’m worthy of the places I photograph.
A Year in the life: 25 November 2022
I get a bit obsessed with the textures and patterns - the way that the personality of a place can change in an instant with the light.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Hadrian's Wall
As I cycle along the wall, I take in each stone as ballast.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Revelation
My recovery had something to do with light and something to do with its interaction with buildings.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Whispering Knights
I walk around the outer edges of the circle (and pick up the crisp packet) - then cut through the centre, past the prostrate couple who are now sitting up and having a smoke. As I move closer the bright orange dot takes shape.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 Nov 2023
I tell myself that it will pass, but whilst it’s here, I decide to turn my troubles into alms and take advantage of my super-senses.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 Oct 2023
For a moment, I disappear: Andy Marshall the frustrated and entitled photographer, the writer, the anxiety ridden camper-van-camino chap - completely disappears.
Mental Health and the Historic Environment
You are not on your own, and I list the posts below as much as to share my experiences rather than as a panacea. We're all in this together, especially in these uncertain times.