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📍Loci: Britain’s Lichen Fields – Sanctuaries of Awe

For me, more than any diamond-encrusted piece of jewellery, I find myself captivated by the visceral beauty of a lichen-encrusted churchyard.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 March 2025

I think it’s because there’s a clarity of message here - a kind of truth that asks nothing of you. Not the sort that needs proving or defending, but one that is simply known, absorbed.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 Nov 2023

I tell myself that it will pass, but whilst it’s here, I decide to turn my troubles into alms and take advantage of my super-senses.

The Holy Host

Every time I visit a building like this I’m gifted with new ways of seeing,