In Praise of Shadows: The Cruck Barn at Barrowford
In our sunlit, beach-combed, selfie-world, it takes a little bravery to move into the shadows.
lancashire
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Genius Loci Digest - 10 Dec 📸🚐🏛
"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we are held in a place between worlds, beyond experience."Kerri ni Dochartaigh (Thin Places)
Genius Loci Digest - 3 Dec 📸🚐🏛
"The light was astonishing today, the air whitening the sunlight, the cold burnishing the blue, the light like absence of smell in the air, both bright and bleaching. There seemed to be no dapple, no interplay of shadow and light.
Genius Loci Digest - 19 Nov 📸🚐🏛
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us." - Thomas Brown, Religio Medici, 1643
Genius Loci Digest - 12 Nov 📸🚐🏛🏕🌳
"All art can have the power of poetic revelation about the material world - it can reveal the ensoulment of the universe." - Hugh Conway Morris