about town: scrapyard vally 2000

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

Scrap Yard Valley 13 / 9 / 00
Belfast still must really be an industrial city. Its scrap yards emulate it.

The city and the Lough are snugly located in a valley, almost circumscribed by hills and mountains. The affairs of the city happen within this tight perimeter.

Clearways Scrap Yard encloses you in mountains of base and alloy metals, whilst convoys of forklifts and lorries ferry around within the metal piles, sorting and augmenting the territory.

'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.