A Year in the life: 8 June 2022
I’m fascinated by the stuff. Etched within and without the officious walls of our churches are the whispers of ordinary people that found a way of making their mark without others seeing.
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⛫ The Cast Room: Doom Painting at Chaldon.
Welcome to my virtual Cast Room. On my travels, I've been taking augmented reality casts of things that appeal to me. The Cast Room is inspired by the Cast Courts of the V&A which hold a vast selection of casts taken of great works of art all over the globe. Members Only.
Be there: St. Andrew Brigstock in glorious VR
The church at St. Andrew has a rare Anglo-Saxon circular turret which is attached to a Saxon tower.
Be there: Kew Gardens and the Thames in glorious VR
Kew is such a magical place. Evolving from the royal pleasure grounds into the botanical gardens that we know today. It was to here that in 1768 Joseph Banks sent seeds whilst on Captain Cook's voyage to the South Seas.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 2 June 2023
I love drilling down from a complex construct of the past (such as a cathedral) to the patina on its walls which holds more complexity than the building itself. A universe in the particular.
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Be there: Portsmouth Cathedral in glorious VR
More than any other cathedral, Portsmouth has a complicated and layered history that, unusually, includes some major C20th interventions.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest 26 May 2023
J.B Priestley equated the time continuum to an omelette. Add Inglesham to the mix and time is a soufflé. Inglesham is like an odd bend in the road of time.
A Year in the life: 24 May 2022
Instantly the animal is alive - its head is a blintering mass of moving light which spills out onto the column behind, begetting the head with a sparkling, animated body.
