Extraction and submersion, surface and depth. Using photographic practice to explore literary and folkloric imaginings of post-industrial landscape.

这个项目是对威尔士中部和西米德兰兹地区被掩埋和被淹没的后工业景观的一个创造性和创造性的探索，通过作家弗朗西斯·布雷夫·杨（Francis BreF Young, 1884-1954）的写作联系起来。由于对现在无法进入的景观的关注，在威尔士地区Vyrnwy， Tryweryn和Elan的水库遗址被水淹没，在Dudley的矿井中被填埋，调查将探索他们的历史和缺席是如何被看到的，通过档案研究，文学和民俗研究，以及摄影实践，穿越这些充满意外的景观。弗朗西斯·布雷夫·杨（Francis BreF Young）写了一系列“麦西亚”小说，故事发生在从伊兰山谷到伯明翰的渡槽路线上，他小时候目睹了这项巨大的工程，在两本小说（Young & Young， 1913年，Young 1932年）中对大坝的建造进行了大量的详细描述。从19世纪90年代到20世纪60年代，由伯明翰公司建造的Elan水库证明了英格兰人在威尔士收集水的许多例子之一，直到有争议的强制洪水在Tryweryn。每一次洪水都导致了社区居民的流离失所和景观的根本变化，对资本主义生产与风景如画的壮丽景观之间的关系提出了质疑。杨格的小说以其令人回味的场景和特定的景观而著称，以非人类的视角开启了对后人类景观的理解（McCully, 1996）。杨的评论是，水库的建设创造了双倍的自然景观之美，在镜面般的广阔地表水中，突出了技术生产的景观的复杂意义，现在是旅游景点，其结束和开始指向我们当前的生态危机。虽然有人对他的黑乡小说（杰伊，1975年）的地理环境进行了一些研究，也有人对林下树丛和其他地方的鬼魂景观进行了简短的研究（瓦伦·布恩，2017年），但这些小说缺乏深入研究，没有对水坝小说进行地理研究，这为基于地点的研究提供了丰富的基础。

This project is a crea>ve and cri>cal enquiry into the buried and submerged post-industrial landscapes ofMid-Wales and the West Midlands, linked through the wri>ngs of author Francis BreF Young (1884-1954). Driven by a concern with the now inaccessible landscape, submerged by water in reservoir sites inthe Welsh areas of Vyrnwy, Tryweryn and Elan, buried through in-fill in mines in Dudley, the enquiry willexplore how their histories and absences are made visible, traversing these con>ngent landscapesthrough archival research, literary and folkloric inves>ga>on, and photographic prac>ce.Francis BreF Young wrote a series of 'Mercian' novels set along the aqueduct route from the Elan Valleyto Birmingham, having witnessed the vast work in progress as a child, with fic>onalised accounts of thedam build in two novels (Young & Young, 1913, Young 1932). The Elan reservoirs made by theBirmingham Corpora>on, 1893-1904, evidence one of many instances of water collec>on in Wales byEnglish ci>es, from the 1890s through to the controversial compulsory flooding of Tryweryn in the 1960s.Each instance of flooding led to the displacement of communi>es and fundamental changes to thelandscape, offering an enquiry into the rela>onship between capitalist produc>on and picturesque andsublime landscape. Young's novels are notable in their evoca>ve and specific landscapes, a non-humanperspec>ve opening an understanding of the post-human landscape (McCully, 1996). Young's asser>onthat the building of the reservoir creates a doubling of the natural beauty of the landscape, in themirrored expanse of surface water, highlights the complexi>es of meaning in a technologically producedshi]ing landscape, now tourist site, whose ends and beginnings point to our current ecological crisis.Whilst there has been some enquiry into the geographies of his Black Country novels (Jay, 1975) and ashort chapter on the haunted landscapes of Undergrowth and others (Valen>ne, 2017), these lack closereading, with no geographic inves>ga>on into the dam novels, which provide a rich basis for place-basedenquiry.