📍Loci: For Books' Sake
..but, for me, on the dust spectrum - book dust comes only second to fairy dust.
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
..but, for me, on the dust spectrum - book dust comes only second to fairy dust.
Like the imprint of sand left behind by the receding tide, our absence etches patterns of meaning that linger long after we’re gone.
The Digest has always been about helping us navigate - ways of anchoring ourselves amidst the complexity and flux of a new world order.
And it’s here, at this first hint of light, that I’m always stopped short by the sight of winter trees standing in silhouette: its whole architecture pressed into sharp relief. I never quite understand why it moves me so deeply.
It is as though the earth during its infancy first carved out a fold - a hollow that sat somewhere within the realms of Fibonacci - a proportion drawn from the same geometry that threads itself through constellations.
There’s a quote by Pablo Neruda that illustrates how I feel: “There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.”
My sketchbooks are like sacred spaces, helping me fine-tune my observation skills and capture the spirit of historic buildings and unique places.
When I walk back up into the nave, the visitor is there at the top of the steps, sat in a chair - as if he knew of the tenderness that was taking place beneath and was unable to enter in upon it.
Join me as we enter the church at St. Mary's Lastingham.
✨ Wondering why I ask for support?
An Anxiety of Memberships