✨ Treasure Hoard: The Soul House at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Behind the concept of the soul house is a connection between spirit and structure conveying the most tactile embodiment of genius loci that I have come across.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The Anglo-Saxon Christ in Majesty Sculpture at St. John, Barnack
It has a Byzantine quality and the exposed belly reminds me of the pot-bellied Buddha statues.
📍Loci: A Universe in the Particular at Grafham in Cambridgeshire.
I run back into the porch blinking my eyes in a vain attempt at reviving my bleached retina. I'm guided back to safety by a potent line of yellow lichen that underpins the church and stops directly at the buttress next to the porch.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 Feb 2025
On top of the deliberate and crafted acts within the material of this magnificent edifice, I’m struck by the hidden layers woven into its fabric - not just in the grandeur of alabaster tombs or chevroned arches, but in the silent details
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 31 Jan 2025
As well as appealing to my pareidolia, this face - this worn and weathered fragment of the past - embodies the words of St. Jerome: ‘the face is the mirror of the mind and confesses the secrets of the heart.’
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 24 Jan 2025
Walking through it is a wonderfully absorbing experience, akin to wandering through Pompeii or Herculaneum.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 January, 2025
Their survival would articulate a faith in the long view; it would signal that we still have the capacity to consider future generations, even when we are not here to witness the fruits of our labour.
⛫ The Cast Room: The Face on the Prior's Door, Ely Cathedral
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: Amongst the angels at St. Wendreda, March, Cambridgeshire.
The roof features 120 angels alongside 19 canopied depictions of saints and martyrs. The intricate woodwork was crafted by the Rollesbury brothers in Bacton, Norfolk, between 1523 and 1526.