RECENT WORK

Collaborative Art for the Common Good

Aerial Art by Spectral Q is a series of Human Moasaic creations designed to bring communities together to communicate important messages for the common good. Spectral Q has specialized in working with children as well as large crowds at public events and demonstrations. Aerial Art by Spectral Q is a non-commercial communication.

Artist’s Message—John Quigley Spectral Q Founder

When I saw this photo of beached whales on Cape Cod I was reminded of a poem that had a profound impact on me in college.

Beached Whales Off Margate
by Stephen Dunn.

One day they just started rolling up,
six pilot whales from way out.
Two hundred people pushed three of them back, oh
it took hours. I tell you all this because two hundred people usually hurt
what they touch. But not this time.
After it was all done, they all stood around
for a while, like the humans they used to be,
lamenting the three who were dead.
Seperateness set in slowly; an aerial shot
would have shown a group moving away
from its center, leaving in ones and twos
toward their large, inconsiderate houses.

The final image of one human organism separating after momentary communion has always stayed with me. The sense of the power of human souls joining as one for a noble cause in what appears to be a progressively colder and indifferent world inspired this work. Like a Tibetan Sand Mandala which is meticulously crafted only to be blown to the wind shortly after its completion. Spectral Q images are Living Art in a moment in time where the process of communion is the central event. While in that moment the goal is an experience of perspective shift which allows for an individual to imagine themselves the tail of a dolphin, the wing of a bird or the tip of South America and ultimately something larger than themselves. The experience is designed to allow for vertical integration where a unified human form communicates directly with the heavens. Thus exercising one of our most primal instincts-to look to the sky for our sense of place in the universe. The photograph becomes a tool by giving a literal reminder that our lives are a work of art.