Andy Marshall's Mini-Camino's - Held By Place
Exploring how certain places and landscapes can ground us, restore us and help us belong
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📍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.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 Dec 2023
The photographs act like wormholes into the time they were taken, and are often the instigators of the stories that I tell within this digest; but more than that, amidst bouts of punishing low self-esteem, they remind me that I’m not an imposter, that I’m worthy of the places I photograph.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Whispering Knights
I walk around the outer edges of the circle (and pick up the crisp packet) - then cut through the centre, past the prostrate couple who are now sitting up and having a smoke. As I move closer the bright orange dot takes shape.