Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 Oct 2025
For Fiona and Tom
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: 26 Sep 2025
Your poets saw darkness here, and nothing more, but in the cerulean sky we are mirrors catching the sun.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 Sep 2025
If an alien did walk these rooms, it might wonder whether human beings build in a fever-dream of fragments
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 September 2025
This is how the masons who built this place would have seen it – and now this realm of rarified air, this dwelling place of angels, is soon to be joined by a humbled human being.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 September 2025
A little church in Warwickshire - a place beyond the ratings.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 August 2025
And having spent so much time absorbed in the optics of photography, it was on my journey to Carlisle, in my encounter with the window there, that I realised how singular this medium is to our isles...
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 August 2025
And so, when I step inside and the nave stretches out towards the chancel, I see it unencumbered, without expectation - through the eyes of a beginner. The impact is almost overwhelming.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 15 August 2025
Here in Paris, with his work all around me, I feel the cataracts of modern life thinning...
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 8 August 2025
Even when I’m heading back home I can feel its zest, its warmth and light. I take the memory of it with me inside, like contraband.