Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 July 2026
Chesterton once wrote that the object of travel is to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. I don’t think I understood what he meant until I turned into Hornpot Lane.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 3 July 2026
After some time I feel like an imposter. I’ve spent far too long here, so I plough on through the rest of the building without a planned break. After completion, I sign out and step back into the great walled city of York.
⟁ Member's Supplement: The Snickelways of York: Monk's Bar to Three Cranes
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📍Loci: Hebden Bridge and the Forgotten Language of Place
Places that are rich in semantics are fertile ground for reinforcing community and helping it navigate the present.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 June 2026
In many ways the process of painting felt like a pilgrimage - throwing up its challenges and yet leading me into a deeper understanding of the people behind the glass.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 May 2026
For a moment, the world stopped feeling closed to me. The contract with the present felt renewed. And I found myself thinking - with unusual clarity - that I will never give up on this world while places like this, and the people capable of making them, still exist within it.
⟁ Member's Supplement: Finding St. William: My Art Commission from York Minster.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 8 May 2026
I imagine all those characters, words and sentences made coherent, ordered into patterns that move the soul, create a mystery, or reveal a hidden truth. I think of the time span that they all encompass - from the first burst of the universe to the first man on the moon.
In Pursuit of Spring - Day Six
A journey (now complete) on my camper-van-camino from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall. Each day, on this journey, I wrote a short post and produced a watercolour drawn from the day’s experiences.