about town: flight path 2000

article in cartography, the city, published by catalyst arts
distributed throughout belfast

Flight Path 13 / 9 / 00 The Schnooks were flying pretty low over the houses last night. Their flight path took them over Belfast Lough towards the North West of the city so they must have been ferrying in more troops and supplies.

There are less military installations to house this new convoy now, but that's probably irrelevant as their role is to form a visible street presence.

'About Town' consists of a series of incidental stories from around Belfast gathered over the period of two months. These stories are used to attempt to map the city in a verenacular personalised way.

Belfast is a city frequently represented in the printed media but the representations of the city in newspapers are often restricted to familiar cliches of an unlivable place. This article takes the form of a map, acknoweledging it as an editorial document where select information is included or left out according to the maps function.