Metaphor of the Spiral Artworks
The images featured on this site (as well as my on my postcards and business cards) are original artworks created to capture the intention and spirit of Quantum Leadership and the spiral path.
The metaphor of their making both reveals and embodies the nature of this work. The basis of each spiral is a common template cut by hand. With this as a guide, the artist used a diversity of media to create the spirals, each with their own unique qualities. In one, the path has been painstakingly constructed from hundreds of tiny musical notes, themselves painstakingly constructed from different papers, then carefully assembled and held in position. Another was generated by one immediate, generous sweep of the hand, with a soft cloth that spread charcoal dust left by its predecessor on the edges of the template; casting a spiral in soft, smudged traces – a ghost of the path created before.
The metaphor here becomes clear, we may all walk the same path but we each create it in our own unique way. For some of us, it echoes the path already trodden by others and is easily revealed; for others creating the path is an enterprise of extreme diligence and care. Whatever our individual qualities of mind and heart, all can be used to shape our own spiral path that leads us to our enduring purpose.
