📍Loci: Ghostly Magic at Broadwell in Oxfordshire
I stand and wait and watch and, as the air is captured within the beams of sunlight, I start to see faces forming and dissipating in the haze.
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Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci
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📍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.
📍Loci: Quantumly Entangled to Dad
Could the essence of a place hold a palpable memory of the past through the process of quantum entanglement?
📍Loci: Bosham - birthplace of Harold Godwinson
Bosham is a place that perfectly matches the title of this digest. Beyond its organic beauty there is a palpable atmosphere that consists of aftershocks to historic events from the past.
📍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.
📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country.
Here in Brixworth in front of this humble dry stone wall everything is alive: the stone, the moss and even the boundary that it betrays. It's all so bloody beautiful.
📍Loci: Navigating Kendal's Yards
I'm struck by the streetscape and in particular its permeability - the absorbent nature of the openings that arise in the buildings that line the streets. People walk along the street and then, in an instant, disappear.
📍Loci: How Photography Taught Me How To See.
Stopping and taking time to observe is an act of faith in the material truth that surrounds us. It washes away the fake news, discomfort and confusion of present times and helps me feel rooted.
📍Loci: Cleaving to our Common Ground through Divine Detritus.
These buildings hold clues to resolving our own woes - for they have sifted, shape-shifted, accumulated and redacted into places of convergence, of overlapping interests and mutual understanding.