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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 July 2024
Inside the nave, the vaulting is a vast geometry caught in Medusa’s gaze, but here the softened, soapy Caen unfurls fern-like.
Inside the nave, the vaulting is a vast geometry caught in Medusa’s gaze, but here the softened, soapy Caen unfurls fern-like.
I've rarely been to a place that so deeply embodies the human need to express their hopes and fears through architecture.
Welcome to my virtual Cast Room. On my travels, I've been taking augmented reality casts of things that appeal to me. The Cast Room is inspired by the Cast Courts of the V&A which hold a vast selection of casts taken of great works of art all over the globe. Members Only.
My own work is an aggregate attempt at trying to untangle the conflicts that arise inside my head by finding hope in the pattern of buildings, places and humans around me.
I observe how they tied the past into the warp and weft of the present - a material act of not letting go; a way to preserve the thread of history, as if the world might unravel if they didn’t.
With the passage of time, what struck me most about these celestial renderings was the feeling of intimacy that emerged - a felt sense of presence, or maybe, even a glimpse of heaven on earth.
Masterpieces of Medieval Open Timber Roofs: Raphael Brandon and J. Arthur Brandon, Dover Publications 2005. Original - David Bogue, London 1849