RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 R/S Res. and Searching for Jossie T2 R/S Res. y Buscando a Jossie A1 Barker, David Walker A1 Eltringham, Daniel K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Medio ambiente K1 Environmental science AB This collaboration between the poet Daniel Eltringham and the artist David Walker Barker explores the Pennine reservoir landscapes and partially drowned communities of Langsett and Midhope, ten miles north-west of Sheffield. The project comprises Eltringham’s poetic sequence “R/S Res.”, and a collaborative cabinet artwork, exhibited at In the Open, the exhibition that accompanied the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-UKI)’s biennial conference in 2017. Walker Barker and Eltringham’s “cabinet” is a playful take on the elusive “Jossie cabin” that gives the work its title and pretext: they set out, unsuccessfully, to locate a vanished shepherd’s hut that had stood on the moorland above Langsett Reservoir. “Searching for Jossie” juxtaposes objects found on walks in those landscapes with text-and-image slates that work archival photographs and R/S Res. into a textured surface. A selection of these slates, some with text and some without, is presented here alongside Eltringham’s sequence in full. Both Eltringham’s poem and Walker Barker’s palimpsestic technique delve into these landscapes’ geology, ecology and human histories, enacting imaginative reconstructions of a scarcely legible landscape marked by loss. They interrogate a poetics of reserve and resource, surface and substratum, in this complex, layered landscape. “R/S Res.” pays particular attention to pattern and place; its imperfect grid form is an exploration of randomness and design as an experiment in place-writing. Rather than imposing an external rigidity on the landscape, the conversation it stages between R and S, between Reserve and Surface, Resistance and Scan, Return and Suffice, is the water-logged, dilapidated distant cousin of the avant-garde grid. Lacking any programmatic formalism, it peters out in the face of chance findings and failures, and is more like what is left of a field-system that has itself been partially erased, partially neglected and naturalised, and gradually taken over by the absences that seep through the little that is known. PB Universidad de Alcalá SN 2171-9594 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37816 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37816 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 28-mar-2024