📍Loci: Ashwell - Medieval Graffiti Centre of the World?
The medieval inhabitants of Ashwell chose to leave their mark in the material fabric of St. Mary's church.
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📍Loci: Voices From The Past At Hillesden.
I’m reminded of the thrill of the mudlarker and the detectorist when they find treasure; but surely these are greater finds?
📍Loci: Leaving our Mark - Medieval Apotropaic Graffiti
Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci
St. Peulan's, Llanbeulan, Anglesey.
I arrive early at St. Peulan's to capture the sunrise and I'm not disappointed. I take my photographs and then just sit and watch until the sky desaturates into the pale blue of the day.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Pie and Pudding People
We must cherish and protect these places as if our lives were etched upon it.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 Feb 2024
What buildings like St. Mary represent is a vast cognitive reserve, a wondrous and sophisticated cosmos of quivering emotional intelligence. This building is full of tiny signatures, a lexicon that betrays the aggregate human attempt at survival in the desperation of a crisis.
Comperandum - Historic Graffiti in Buildings
A nod to Banister Fletcher: Historic Graffiti in Buildings
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 July 2023
"Could the essence of a place hold a palpable and manifest memory of the past through the process of quantum entanglement? "
A Year in the life: 8 June 2022
I’m fascinated by the stuff. Etched within and without the officious walls of our churches are the whispers of ordinary people that found a way of making their mark without others seeing.