Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 March 2026
What is being gathered here is not just material, but understanding. That we are shaped by these places, as much as we shape them.
What is being gathered here is not just material, but understanding. That we are shaped by these places, as much as we shape them.
Again there came an unfurling and opening up that comes with looking into another creature’s eye - but this time it was with a building.
If ever there is a testament to a work of art, it is when it makes our digital dystopia (and the devices associated with it) evaporate into the ether.
Bosham is a place that perfectly matches the title of this digest. Beyond its organic beauty there is a palpable atmosphere that consists of aftershocks to historic events from the past.
Here in Brixworth in front of this humble dry stone wall everything is alive: the stone, the moss and even the boundary that it betrays. It's all so bloody beautiful.
Amidst the medieval ridge and furrow are lumps and bumps that mark events from the past, reverberating through this place. It was at Repton that a great Viking army wintered in 873 AD under the leadership of Ivar the Boneless. The lumps and bumps are the boundaries of their camp.
A chance to own a limited edition print of the Saxon crypt at St. Wystan, Repton
The weight of history here is a press. I am so taken in by what I see that I sit down on the cold slab to absorb it. This is a place that has held fast in the eddying tides and swells of chaotic times.
An opportunity to own an original piece from my A4 sketchbook: an ink and watercolour drawing of the Anglo-Saxon crypt at Repton painted on 225gsm paper.
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