A Flying Saucer Will Deliver an Important Message
is one of twelve artworks created by the artist
in response to Trumpism, Brexit and the populist movement.
The Counter Culture Rising series evokes the key tenets of the hippy movement of the 1960s and 70s as an antidote to the
troubled 2010s.
The hippy counter culture was often associated with UFO phenomena: hippies living psychedelically tended to see all
kinds of things in the sky.
A Flying Saucer Will Deliver an Important Message
refers to the belief that alien visitation was imminent. This was a persistent trope
of the 1950s and 60s. Aliens would visit earth with dire warnings about man's reckless atomic testing or degradation
of the environment.
Alien wisdom would ultimately lead to a raising of human consciousness that would save the planet. Or the aliens
would simply destroy humanity to protect the earth.