Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 23 Oct 26
Over the years, I’ve become convinced that some places have a genius loci strong enough to pierce the gelatinous membrane of the present
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: 16 Oct 26
Then I might stalk the church tower in a roundabout way, walking through the silent lanes, up and over the hump-backed bridge, casting my eye upon its layers of history, until I finally plucked up the courage to walk into the churchyard and face the tower full on.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 October 26
I catch a glimpse through a narrowboat portal and see a pair of hands held out towards the fire. I feel like a voyeur, but my overwhelming desire is to sit there inside, beside the fire..
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 2 Oct 26
By the time I reached Dinas Brân, I was starting to see Offa’s Dyke differently. Perhaps it was not the beginning of a border landscape at all, but one monumental episode in a much older story.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest 25 Sep 26
What I love about walking is the way connections with features in the landscape evolve. My eyes lock on to a building and, as the paths and lanes twist and turn, I follow its relationship with the surrounding hills until it slips out of sight.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 18 September 2026
Later in the day the sun cajoles us, blinds us, stops us in our tracks and then hides behind a copse. A narrow road leads to a crooked church - walls leaning, porch dotted with mass dials. The truck sidles up an embankment and screeches to a halt in a cloud of dust.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 11 Sep 2026
The gaps allow things to reveal their character - the space around a form, the lapse in a conversation, the silence that lets us recognise what we’ve heard.
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.
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.