Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 June 2025
Whilst I stood and waited for its return, I envisioned notions of time loosening its grip - of fog as a veil not just over landscape, but over centuries.
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: 13 June 2025
I feel a jolt, a sudden shift of perspective. The tension between the refined above and the stark reality beneath is palpable. Hidden in plain sight is a narrative on our own mortality – a memento mori.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 June 2025
Here’s my chance to have parity with the generations that might listen to the final note of Longplayer in 975 years’ time. Here’s my chance to look down upon a thousand-year thread of time and try to comprehend what this building means to me.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 30 May 2025
In recent times, I’ve noticed a shift in my emotions—a kind of angst driven by the current state of the world, followed by a re-purposing of how I want to navigate it.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 23 May 2025
Beneath its surface, the meadow seems to live and breath — buttercups, sorrel, long grass — all caught in the current, wriggling and swaying as if in conversation with the stream. I sit beside it and stay for a while.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 May 2025
And so it seems fitting—uncannily fitting—that the man standing in the rubble should bear the name he did. Piper. Pipe. Conduit.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 May 2025
I walk down through the nave, drawn towards a doorway that cradles a rarefied luminescence — a mingling of dappled colour from stained glass, the glint of refracted light on metal, and a hint of the golden radiance that spring has blessed us with this year.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 2 May 2025
If the Grand Tour were still a rite of passage, this would be one of its stopping places — visited not for splendour but for its pleasing dereliction.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 25 April 2025
With the full day ahead of me – and feeling like a lord and master over time – I visit all my usual haunts: breakfast at the Naked Man, a browse through the bookshop on the market square, coffee at the Folly on the hill.