📍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.
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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An Evening with Steve Tomlin at Broadwell, Oxfordshire - 11th Nov 2023
Steve Tomlin will deliver an illustrated talk about the medieval church, specifically addressing apotropaics, the perception of magic and religious ritual in the context of remarkable archaeological evidence found at Broadwell church.
Be there: Henge Circle, Avebury in glorious VR
Avebury henge is part of a vast ritualistic landscape. Here's an opportunity to drop within a stone circle via VR.
Be there: Dovecote, Avebury in glorious VR
It's one of my favourite buildings in Avebury. There's something about a circular building that really appeals to me - it never ends.
The Door Print: over a year in the making...
" It has taken over 300 hours of travel, photography and post production to produce."
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 Sep 2023
"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. "
Be there: All Saints Church, Fleet in glorious VR
All Saints was subject to an arson attack in 2015 which left the building a shell. It has taken 8 years of careful planning and skilled conservation to bring the building back to life.
A Year in the life: 20 September 2022
The timing feels right. It’s a singular day with a singular sunrise that’s reflected and repeated innumerably in a host of dew drops in the field before me.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest 15th Sep 2023
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.