about town: spiral staircase 2000

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

Spiral Staircase 28 / 8 / 00
They demolished part of the old Millfield Tech recently. I drove past it as the site was nearly cleared. All that stood was a lone spiral staircase that now led nowhere. I went back to get my camera; the staircase had gone on my return. Apparently it had once lead up to the gymnasium.

'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