A giant heart will appear in the sky around Ireland next week as two Mexican artists circumnavigate the country in an aircraft.
They will take off from Weston Airport in Leixlip, Co Kildare, at 8 a.m. on Wednesday and will create a trajectory drawing of a heart, 900 miles in diameter.
Jose Ferez Kuri and Andrea di Castro, who have been creating these large-scale drawings all over the world since 1997, say the enormous symbol in the sky will be "the most magnificent invocation of peace and harmony this land has ever seen".
"This is the most ambitious phase of an ongoing project that it is creating a layer of virtual drawings around the Earth," they say.
The "heartflight" will fly north-east over Malahide and north around the Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim. Passing Erris Head near Belmullet, it will form a point above the Atlantic to the south-west.
Returning to land past Mizen Head in the south, it will track north in a broad loop back to its point of origin in Kildare.
It is hoped a virtual drawing of the aircraft's flight will be tracked by satellite.
Jose Ferez Kuri and Andrea di Castro began making virtual drawings as they drove round Mexican cities in 1997. Since then they have made trajectory drawings by air, land and sea in Canada, South America, Spain and England.