Video: Messages for those in the sky. Pictures-messages of John Quigley (John Quigley)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Artist John Quigley is known around the world for his environmental messages and paintings built from human bodies and photographed from a bird's eye view.
John Quigley teamed up with his Dublin-born friend Stuart Townsend to create an impressive installation on Tara Hill, Ireland. Interestingly, Tara Hill is a candidate for World Heritage listing, with people who wanted to help organize the massive installation and those who wanted to be directly involved were asked to wear white or light-colored clothing to create a contrast to the green grass. It took between 500 and 1000 people to write the three words “Save Tara Valley”. The main requirement for those who came to the valley is to leave it untouched, as it was: "Take nothing but memories - leave nothing but traces." This whole picture was photographed from the air.
Other striking paintings include an SOS caption drawn by 35 people on an iceberg in Antarctica to draw attention to the problem of rising sea levels. John Quigley and his assistants were not frightened even by the severe frosts of Antarctica.
For another planned project at Kuta Beach in Bali, John Quigley organized a crowd of thousands and formed a symbolic picture of the world that was washed away by the tide. In addition, above the painting itself, people used their own bodies to form the phrase “Act now”. This message is aimed at environmental organizations to get them to respond to the problem. Local group members and international activists have become an inspiring symbol of how the world needs to unite to tackle climate change, the most important issue of our time. Looking down from this installation, we see half the world washed away by the waters of the ocean, symbolizing what the inhabitants of the southern part will suffer disasters during drastic climatic changes.
Another installation in Park City gathered 800 students who posted the message: "Step it up. Go carbon neutral." Sitting or lying in the snow, students used their bodies to write a huge message about global warming. All of them have made history in the fight against climate change, in this case to keep the snow in Park City.
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