Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: The Treasure Hoard Edition
Encounter by encounter - place by place - these things helped me rediscover a sense of wonder.
genius loci digest
This digest revels in the in-between, the transitional, the presence of absence. My camera with its dials and knobs and sharp focus has taken me into the blur of things. It has taught me that because things can't be measured it doesn't mean that it isn't there. The spirit of things, the essence of our places is as real as my shutter button.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 August 26
What existed in the landscape as strata and outcrop has been quarried, squared, carved and reassembled into columns and arches. For a moment, here in the nave, the distinction between building and landscape begins to blur.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 21 Aug 26
Along Scotland Lane I feel it first - a kind of mizzle that comes not in great drops, but as something akin to stardust hovering just above the surface of things and then descending in soft ribbons of gossamer.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 14 Aug 26
When my own world narrowed, I had something folded deep within me: the sense that there might be a door out of the darkness.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 Aug 2026
I feel as though I’m in a kind of dystopian bubble of my own making - an aberration in the continuum, as though I’ve slipped into the square from another century, carrying some obsolete way of looking at the world.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 31 July 26
Time moves through this place like a glacier, gathering fragments from particular moments, carrying cultural moraine and depositing it into the fabric of the present.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 24 July 2026
The steadfast presence of this humble church has held up a mirror to the significant changes in me.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 July 2026
When I get up close to some of the mills, I might as well be standing within the bounds of Fountains or Rievaulx - buildings that were themselves cogs in their own industrious machines devoted to wool.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 July 2026
Chesterton once wrote that the object of travel is to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. I don’t think I understood what he meant until I turned into Hornpot Lane.