A Year in the life: 26 June 2022
Stonehenge is just one element in a larger web of places that live beyond their physical presence. Think of Glastonbury Tor, The Shambles, York and Sutton Hoo.
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Stonehenge is just one element in a larger web of places that live beyond their physical presence. Think of Glastonbury Tor, The Shambles, York and Sutton Hoo.
It feels like there is a kind of aesthetic gravity at play - that I am being drawn into a celestial whirlpool of beautiful things, flying through the cosmic dust of our historic environment only to be sucked into the divine detritus that adorns our churches.
Driving or, indeed walking down to the church at South Huish takes on the aspect of entering another realm for the roads are deeply cut and take you into their own asmosphere - one that muffles sound and bends light.
St. Andrew's, South Huish in Devon is a place for artists and creatives.
After difficult times in my thirties, I found salvation in the vernacular.
Photographing a remarkable building in Broadwell. This is as much your photo shoot as mine!
In appreciating this it also demonstrates an innate sense of how buildings work, a relationship then between the seemly and seamlessness.
There's a rap on the door. It's Caroline the architect - I'm still in my orrery. I exit the van via the rear door and hand her a rainbow baton we found earlier in the Orangery - left over from a wedding at the weekend. The tailgate hisses as it rises. I feel like Major Tom exiting an air lock.
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