Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 June 2023
After difficult times in my thirties, I found salvation in the vernacular.
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: 9 Jun 2023
There's a rap on the door. It's Caroline the architect - I'm still in my orrery. I exit the van via the rear door and hand her a rainbow baton we found earlier in the Orangery - left over from a wedding at the weekend. The tailgate hisses as it rises. I feel like Major Tom exiting an air lock.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 2 June 2023
I love drilling down from a complex construct of the past (such as a cathedral) to the patina on its walls which holds more complexity than the building itself. A universe in the particular.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest 26 May 2023
J.B Priestley equated the time continuum to an omelette. Add Inglesham to the mix and time is a soufflé. Inglesham is like an odd bend in the road of time.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 May 2023
Here is the full three days of a remarkable journey into the heart of Pembrokeshire.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 May 2023
The stylistic formality of classicism is embossed upon the jaunty angled village vernacular of a planned town of the C12th.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 May 2023
After spending prolonged days wrestling with the light through my viewfinder, I’ve experienced a kind of photo-serotonin effect, as if a transfusion has taken place resulting in an inner glow, unable to stop chattering; a feeling of being baptised with the splendour of it.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 April 2023
And so I find myself, over three days, encapsulated like a fly in amber within the bounds of that gaze.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 21 April 2023
Every now and then, I come across a piece of work that makes me put my camera down."