Genius loci: The spirit of a place
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There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
The name Beaulieu comes etymologically from French beau lieu, which means "beautiful place". It is derived from Beaulieu Abbey which was populated by 30 monks sent from the abbey of Cîteaux in France, the mother house of the Cistercian order. The medieval Latin name of the monastery was Bellus Locus Regis ("The beautiful place of the king"') or monasterium Belli loci Regis.
During the Second World War, the Beaulieu Estate of Lord Montagu in the New Forest area was the site of group B finishing schools for agents operated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) between 1941 and 1945. (One of the trainers was Kim Philby who was later found to be part of a spy ring passing information to the Soviets). In 2005, a special exhibition was installed at the Beaulieu Estate, with a video showing photographs from that era as well as voice recordings of former SOE trainers and agents.
The village has remained largely unspoilt by progress, and is a favourite tourist stop for visitors to the New Forest, and also for birdwatchers seeking local specialities like Dartford warbler, European honey buzzard and hobby.
Palace House was featured in the 2005 comedy-drama film Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont starring Joan Plowright and Rupert Friend.
The village was rated as among the "20 most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland" by Condé Nast Traveler in 2020
Information by Wikipedia.
Texture & Effect by William Walton & Topaz.
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost
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A capture at an ancient sacred site in my province. The figure between the rocks looks somewhat spooky but it was actually a very nice young lady from another province, who also visited there, that day.
There are places that help me recognize a deeper truth about myself that transcends logic and explanation. Ancient Romans argued that no place is without genius. Every place, every space is inhabited by the invisible; as is the human body by the breath of life
Prima delle veneziane gracchianti al vento c' erano le tende.
La barra di sostegno delle vecchie tende, ormai non più utilizzate, a Procida.
Sarei felice di conoscere se in altri luoghi si trovano elementi similari.
Have you seed similar obiects elsewhere ?
Dunas de Jericoacoara
Parque Nacional de Jericoacoara
Ceará, Brasil
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Parabéns! A foto Duna da Meia Lua adicionada ao grupo Genius loci: The spirit of a place foi selecionada para ser a foto da capa.
Em 09/06/2025
There is something fascinating about this abandoned power station...so many pictures of it, and yet i couldn't resist taking yet another one....it must be the loci of the area...irresistable! hope i've given it another life with this edit!
The Mei Loci giant pebbles by local sculptor Ben Barrel come into their own in the early evening sunlight and we’re casting wonderful shadows adding to effect I think….and the running young lady a positive gift.
St Michael’s Mount catching the evening sunlight and the surrounding scenery made a wonderful backdrop and the tide was right in.
I felt lucky getting such wonderful conditions on that beautiful evening…
Hope your evening is wonderful this Saturday night :)
Date and Time (Original) - 2022:07:02 19:11:25
Date and Time (Digitized) - 2022:07:02 19:11:25
A structure which is so visible from the terrace on Wawel Hill was inscribed into the meanders of the Vistula flowing in the middle, to prevent interference with the genius loci that had been present here from time immemorial.
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I shall be dipping in and out for the next few days - we have been invited to our neighbour's for a meal tomorrow night, Sunday evening Ben, Abby and the girls are eating here, Monday we are picking up Elsie from school and cooking in east London . . .maybe Tuesday will be normal!
Morning light over Windknollen, Jena-Cospeda, Thuringia, Germany
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Whilst this site can occasionally be read about as a neolithic site (tools have been found here), it is now often found in a category of early Christian building. Attempts are made to read the architecture of a church into this sculpted outcrop from the Cantabrie region of Spain: "here is the nave, here is the apse" and so on. Several monolithic graves are deeply associated with the site, and by and large this category of sepulture is also ascribed to Christian origin. I will argue over a series of posts that monolithic graves cannot be seen as exclusively Christian and that some can only be understood as coming from the continuum of late prehistory/protohistory to epi-protohistoric. Releasing monolithic sepulchres (caved into bedrock) from an exclusive Christian attribution may help return this specific site to a best fitting late prehistoric narrative and in so doing, offer a rare and tremendously exciting para-megalithic loci for visualising rites and social moments - perhaps between Bell Beaker and post Celtic.
AJM 10.08.20
The image is a reduced version of a montage using images from a 50mm 1.4 Takumar. Some wires and posts have been removed to simplify the visual moment.
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ArtPrize - Grand Rapids, MI
"Genius Loci"
Artist - Kim Carlino
Seen on the Ionia McConnell Parking Lot Wall
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Visione in un crepuscolo nebbioso. Misty twilight vision. Riola di Vergato. Collina.Hill. Bologna ,Dicembre 2018
A conferma del fatto che il portoncino precedente non era un episodio singolo. Questa è quella in via Sctti Galletta
La mancanza di un obbiettivo grandangolare mi ha costretto a tagliare la base,
Die Abtei Marienstatt (lateinisch Abbatia Loci Sanctae Mariæ) ist ein Zisterzienserkloster und Wallfahrtsort in der Ortsgemeinde Streithausen, Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz. Sie liegt in einem Tal vier Kilometer von Hachenburg entfernt direkt an der Nister.
Die Abteikirche von Marienstatt gilt als erste rechtsrheinische gotische Kirche in Deutschland und ist ein bis in unsere Zeit bewundertes Kunstwerk.
Zu den Besonderheiten der Kirche gehören eines der ältesten noch genutzten Chorgestühle in Deutschland.
Lisen to: Eye In The Sky Alan Parsons Project
Don't think sorry's easily said
Don't try turning tables instead
You've taken lots of Chances before
But I'm not gonna give anymore
Don't ask me
That's how it goes
Cause part of me knows what you're thinkin'
Don't say words you're gonna regret
Don't let the fire rush to your head
I've heard the accusation before
And I ain't gonna take any more
Believe me
The sun in your Eyes
Made some of the lies worth believing
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don't need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Don't leave false illusions behind
Don't cry cause I ain't changing my mind
So find another fool like before
Cause I ain't gonna live anymore believing
Some of the lies while all of the signs are deceiving
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don't need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
This is the longest Mani stone wall in the world ( estemated 1500 m ) ; it's located in Sershul County. Dza Patrul Rinpoche began its construction.
Mani walls
Along the paths of regions under the influence of Tibetan Buddhism the traveller is often confronted with Mani walls. These stone structures are a compilation intricately carved stone tablets, most with the inscription "Om Mani Padme Hum" which loosely translates to "Hail to the jewel in the lotus".[4] These walls should be passed or circumvented from the left side, the clockwise direction in which the earth and the universe revolve, according to Buddhist doctrine.
They are sometimes close to a temple or chorten, sometimes completely isolated and range from a few metres to a kilometre long and one to two metres high. They are built of rubble and sand and faced with mani stones engraved in the elegant Tibetan script.
Mani stones are stone plates, rocks and/or pebbles, inscribed with the six syllabled mantra of Avalokiteshvara (Om mani padme hum, hence the name "Mani stone"), as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism. The term Mani stone may also be used in a loose sense to refer to stones on which any mantra or devotional designs (such as ashtamangala) are inscribed. Mani stones are intentionally placed along the roadsides and rivers or placed together to form mounds or cairns or sometimes long walls, as an offering to spirits of place or genius loci. Creating and carving mani stones as devotional or intentional process art is a traditional sadhana of piety to yidam. Mani stones are a form of devotional cintamani.
Today we look at buildings and 'read' their lines, ascribing a finishing term such as Bauhaus, Renaissance or Neo Classical. If we were to simply 'read' the lines and details of this heavy monolithic site without prior "reading", then we may notice the extremely heavy and softly squared dolmen-like monolithic 'table' and place the site within a category that includes late Neolithic sites and Chalcolithic sites. We may notice a simple 'throne' carved high above the surface of the ground and link it with a number of sites from late prehistoric ages. We may notice the lack of ornamentation and the sense of raw structure and place it in a Chalcolithic date category aside the 'boat havens' (currently described as hypogee) in the Fontvieilles cluster (images and hypothesis posted between April 2019 and spring 2020). We understand that a monolithic sarcophagi is located in the rock 'above' the site - which contrast with many Christian sites where burial is typically under the place of worship. We notice the proximity with highly significant Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze age and Iron Age sites. We notice that the site is both under deposits of the precious stone amber, and aside the great River Ebro E/W highway, and are relaxed to imagine a subject oriented 'warrior sentry' (proto police) sat on a carved chair with spiritually linked traders negotiating language and exchange with new or unknown visiting faces. In effect, we may see a strong space for a vivid and rare mineral that was at the heart of the late prehistoric mosaic, and a loci that is perfectly positioned between the hill top deposits and the valley's natural flows of people.
For a number of reasons I will not rush into dating other sites from this specific example.
AJM. 28.12.20
There are several Vettones hill forts in this region with further hill forts opposite on the Portuguese heights of the river Douro - all from the pre Roman iron age. Today you can hear radios playing traditional Portuguese music from the white houses of the perched village visible to the right. Opposite 'banks' : exaggerated costume, drum and fire could all be matched between Castros either side of the great river.
The lower basin is one of two associated with this loci at the conceptual centre of the hill fort.
Just over a kilometre from Piedra de Los Moros an outcrop and a hermitage from the 11th century. Once again we see a respectful distance from an ancient loci. We see quiet influence. We see 'then modern' versions of monolithic sarcophagi - far from the 'bathtub' forms; and then modern redefinitions of the domed cavities so dominant in Los Moros. Gone are the interconnecting window-doorways, gone is the easy distance between the top opening and floor, gone is the organic top aperture big enough for good light, a quick jump-through access and the symbolic that comes from allusions to a site currently known as a monolithic necropolis, and in place a then modern definition for those with lingering ideas of ancient significations for the Moros site: "Your relics are todays grain silos and nothing more - move on". Said at a respectful distance but with a chip-shifting realpolitik and need to adhere to norms.
AJ 20.12.22
Not more than 10km to the south east of the crumbling Dolmen de Brunas (A) - linked below; a fine example of a Larzac dolmen. The dolmen is found to the side of a small town called La Cavalerie which is a key loci for the Larzac plateau's famous cheeses, including several smaller tomme so interesting to prehistory; be it for research or lunch.
You Can See the 4 Little Birds in the Large Size
Listen to: Clouds
I fell down, down, down
Into this dark and lonely hole
There was no one there to care about me anymore
And I needed a way to climb and grab a hold of the edge
You were sitting there, holding a rope
And we'll go up, up, up
But I'll fly a little higher
Go up in the clouds because the view's a little nicer
Up here my dear
It won't be long now, it won't be long now
When we get back on land
Well I'll never get my chance
Be ready to live and it'll be ripped right out of my hands
And maybe someday we'll take a little ride
We'll go up, up, up and everything will be just fine
We'll go up, up, up
But I'll fly a little higher
Go up in the clouds because the view's a little nicer
Up here my dear
It won't be long now, it won't be long now
If only I had a little bit more time
If only I had a little bit more time with you
We could go up, up, up
And take that little ride
We'll sit there holding hands
And everything would be just right
And maybe someday I'll see you again
We'll float up in the clouds and we'll never see the end
We'll go up, up, up
But I'll fly a little higher
Go up in the clouds because the view's a little nicer
Up here my dear
It won't be long now, it won't be long now