Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: Friday 13 Feb
Through the journey, this long apprenticeship will gather into something shared. Threaded through it all will be Edward Thomas reminding us how even in the deepest winter hope springs eternal.
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up
In Pursuit of Spring. The Midden Project. York Minster Project. Member Powered Photography
The Midden: Honouring the Human
Deeply Vale — Honouring the Human This marks the beginning of a project that has been a seed in my heart for a long time. There is a wild, isolated valley in a northern spur of the Pennines that, for a short blaze of time, held a small community of mill...
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: In Pursuit of Spring
By the end of this journey - what will it know of me?
The crypt at St. Colman's, Portmahomack in VR
The medieval crypt
⟁ Member's Supplement: The Tarbat Discovery Centre, Portmahomack
Deeper dives into place and people for Members Only
📍Loci: ✨ Where Meaning Takes Form: How Tragedy Turned to Hope in a Single Building
"The peeling paint, the muted colours and the rusting iron is no more. Here time’s cataract has been removed, and I’m seeing a building as the Victorians first saw it. "
📍Loci: The Transformative Power of Light 🪄 ✨ 🏛️ 📸
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.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Hadrian's Wall and Kirkoswald
Two or three auxiliary soldiers lived and sheltered within this space. I imagine their conversations tucked around each stone like mortar: love-stories coursing through the mortar joints, comedy springing from the castellation and tragedy lurking in the quoins.