Andy Marshall's Mini-Camino's - Held By Place
Exploring how certain places and landscapes can ground us, restore us and help us belong
mental health
Architecture, photography and its relationship to mental health and wellbeing from my own perspective.
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From Breakdown to New Vocation: My Genius Loci Digest Journey
In the late 1990's I had a breakdown that ultimately led me, through a journey that took me away from depression, to a new career in photography. But what was the spark that ignited my journey?
📍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: 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.
📍Loci: Feeling Out of Sorts - Mental Health and our Heritage.
My way out of this kind of anxiety is to ground myself in the buildings around me - to stop and take in the differences, look upwards, look beyond. Others do the same - in their gardens, out in nature, with their hobbies.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 14 Nov 2025
I was quite unwell when I last visited this place, on a journey to understand why old buildings like this seemed to scatter the shadows.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 30 May 2025
In recent times, I’ve noticed a shift in my emotions—a kind of angst driven by the current state of the world, followed by a re-purposing of how I want to navigate it.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 11 April 2025
Despite the epic scale of the moorland, it is the smallest thing - a chapel - that animates the landscape.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 14 March 2025
Then, instinctively, I reach into my bag. My fingers graze the edge of my sketchbook. It’s such a comforting feeling - that first touch tingles because of the depth of its meaning. Should I?