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.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 March 26
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.
📍Loci: Britain’s Lichen Fields – Sanctuaries of Awe
For me, more than any diamond-encrusted piece of jewellery, I find myself captivated by the visceral beauty of a lichen-encrusted churchyard.
📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country.
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.
📍Loci: Breaking The Frame: How a Single Photograph Became a Threshold.
And perhaps this is where the photograph does its best work. Not in what it contains, but in what it releases.
📍Loci: Buildings Speak? Yes They Do.
If ever there is an argument for a building that might dispel the disbelief of a radio jock, then it is the Beauchamp Chapel at St. Mary's in Warwick.
📍Loci: Voices From The Past At Hillesden.
I’m reminded of the thrill of the mudlarker and the detectorist when they find treasure; but surely these are greater finds?
📍Loci: A Grain of Sand.
Like the imprint of sand left behind by the receding tide, our absence etches patterns of meaning that linger long after we’re gone.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 December 2025
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.