Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 September 2024
And there are rumours that the synchronicity that sprang from the Roman temple inspired the medieval scholar Alcuin to build the Alma Sophia (Holy Wisdom) here.
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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: 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.
Be there: Rollright Stones in glorious VR
Legend has it that they are a king and his courtiers petrified by a witch. The story was first mentioned in William Camden's Britannia in 1586.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 13 Oct 2023
"I find it hard to think how anything like this can survive the perils of our times."
Aerial Video of St. Peter and St. Paul, Long Compton, Warwickshire
Even better than that is the fly-around - giving a unique perspective to this beautiful church and village.
Be there: Long Compton in glorious VR.
I have to admit that this is one of those church views that benefits from a drive-past.
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."
📍Loci: What will survive of us is instinct.
Larkin is telling us to trust our instincts - to see through the rhetoric of the day - a rhetoric that sometimes constructs a reality that is so absurd and yet so real and pervasive at times.