📍Loci: Hiraeth
The landscape provides a correspondence with the transition of time—the valley bottoms out into flattened serenity, as the Berwyn hills rise like embattlements pitched against any sense of doubt as to the magic at play.
ways of seeing
In the late 1990's I had a breakdown that ultimately led me, through a journey that took me away from depression, to a new career in photography. What made all the grit of the dark days worthwhile was that I was left with something that felt like a pearl - a new way of seeing and interacting with things - more sensual, emotive and visual. These posts explore different ways of seeing and experiencing our world.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 January, 2025
Their survival would articulate a faith in the long view; it would signal that we still have the capacity to consider future generations, even when we are not here to witness the fruits of our labour.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 3 Jan 2025
My photography helped me become a sculptor of light after being plunged into darkness by depression and my camera taught me how to see.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 Dec 2024
Despite our darkest selves, through the time-sieved collective, we can’t help but express the essence of what it means to be human.
📍Loci: The Threshold
I know it all sounds a little odd, and men don’t usually talk about these things, but I feel that what happened to me during that time was miraculous, and miraculous things should be shouted from the rooftops.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 September 2024
Relief washes over me—something new to explore, a welcome distraction from the mental clutter of the morning’s news.
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.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 26 July 2024
I know it all sounds a little odd, and men don’t usually talk about these things, but I feel that what happened to me during that time was miraculous, and miraculous things should be shouted from the rooftops.
📍Loci: Evocation of Place
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