ยง ///crows.circling.somewhere
An annotated topography of chance.
This map considers the landscape and places defined by Ted Hughes in 'Remains of Elmet (1979) and the language that he used in the collection of poems.
The grid of the Ordnance Survey map OL21 is annotated with randomised three-word locative tags. While these identifiers appear to be arbitrary abstractions, they are actually embedded with Hughes' unique language of the area.
Some grid squares contain numerical page-number identifiers to record the approximate locations of photographs by Fay Godwin from the original Elmet book (as seen in her personal annotated OL21 map, in the British Library Archive).
This artwork is an outcome from the 'Cultures of Creative Health' collaborative project 'Other Ways to Walk'. Artwork is on public view in the Toast House Gallery, University of Huddersfield (01.11.2024 to 11.01.2025).
keywords: writing machine, poetry, elmet, hughes, map, cartography, grid
