Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 15 Dec 2023
" ...there are magical places, curated by our forebears, that allow us to escape feudal time, to bathe in an alternative chronology."
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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☀️ Eustace Collection: Hadrian's Wall
As I cycle along the wall, I take in each stone as ballast.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Wells Cathedral Light Refinery
Across a building extruded from the Triassic and Jurassic this isn't just a parable of faith, but also the story of the cosmos itself and our part in it.
☀️ 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.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 Nov 2023
If I were a Banksy or an Emin, and presented the world with an object that had been shaped by the collated, nuanced press of several thousand people over five hundred years, I’d think I was onto something.
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."
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 Oct 2023
I plumped for Birdoswald and missed the opportunity of ever seeing one of the most photographed trees in the country. On 28 September the tree was unlawfully cut down in the dark hours.
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.