Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 Sep 2025
If an alien did walk these rooms, it might wonder whether human beings build in a fever-dream of fragments
ways of seeing
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. What made all the grit of the dark days worthwhile was that I was left with something that felt like a pearl - a new way of seeing and interacting with things - more sensual, emotive and visual. These posts explore different ways of seeing and experiencing our world.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 September 2025
This is how the masons who built this place would have seen it – and now this realm of rarified air, this dwelling place of angels, is soon to be joined by a humbled human being.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 September 2025
A little church in Warwickshire - a place beyond the ratings.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 15 August 2025
Here in Paris, with his work all around me, I feel the cataracts of modern life thinning...
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 1 August 2025
Part of the joy I feel as I sit with a vin rouge, watching life ripple through the square, is a deeper sense of connection and gratitude
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 25 July 2025
That moment got my cognitive juices flowing. I began to wonder: if a single face could hold such depth, what might happen if I tried to capture it line by line in my sketchbook?
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 11 July 2025
What we all realised today is that our high streets are not just places to shop – the buildings that line them are repositories of memory. They tell stories about the people of the past: what we loved, how we coped, how we engaged with the world.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 4 July 2025
I’m completely jolted out of my torpor by a face staring directly at me from behind a phalanx of golden leaves
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 June 2025
Here’s my chance to have parity with the generations that might listen to the final note of Longplayer in 975 years’ time. Here’s my chance to look down upon a thousand-year thread of time and try to comprehend what this building means to me.