UFOS
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Steven Vincent Johnson. Enjoy your stay. Please feel free to tell your friends
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Down the Road
A’Ways, 1980
Medium: acrylic
on illustration board
15”x20”
Erra, 1991
Medium: alkyd on canvas board
20”x30”
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The Abduction
of Kinkade, 2005
Medium: digital
5000x3800 pixels
Archetype, 1986
Medium: alkyd on canvas board
24”x32”
Camping Vision 1979
Medium: acrylic
on illustration board
15”x20”
Greetings, 1979
Medium: acrylic on illustration board
15”x20”
High Above, 1979
Medium: acrylic
on illustration board
11”x14”
Imaginations of Flight, 1980
Medium: acrylic on illustration board
18”x24”
Martha! Come Quick!
It’s those Damned
Silly Lights again, 1978
Medium: acrylic
on illustration board
11”x14”
May your Encounters
be Interesting, 1998
Medium: acrylic on illustration board
18”x24”
Planet Fall, 1979
Medium: acrylic
on illustration board
15”x20”
Stellar HiWay, 1980
Medium: acrylic on illustration board
15”x20”
The Observers, 1980
Medium: acrylic
on Illustration board
15”x20”
Transmigration, 1979
Medium: acrylic on illustration board
15”x20”
Twilight Vision, 1979
Medium: acrylic
on Illustration board
15”x20”
Unidentified Flying Objects, UFOs, fascinate me. Always have. Probably always will. I’ve talked with a lot of
individuals who have seen UFOs - inexplicable things observed in our skies that we can’t explain. I’ve also
conversed with many who have experienced what they believe are close-encounters with what some have
concluded are interactions with extraterrestrials. Are all of these unidentified flying objects real, or are they
nothing more than simple misinterpretations of the prosaic kind? I don’t know the answers to most of these
vexing questions. However, I’ve witnessed too much denial that attempts to dismiss all of these sightings as
nothing more than visual misinterpretation or as unfortunate aberrant psychological states of mind. Granted,
there probably is a certain amount of misinterpretation going on. We are after all only human. To be human is to
occasionally misinterpret our surroundings and personal experiences. But can simple misidentification of an
object hovering in the sky, or an misinterpreted experience explain all of the phenomenon that have been
recorded in the skies or personally experienced? Can all of these other-worldly “encounter” experiences be
chalked up to psychological aberrations that would best be handled on the couch of a trained therapist, or
perhaps with drugs? It seems to me that something interesting is going on. Perhaps some of these experiences
have been occuring for a very long time, and some of it may turn out to be a lot more interesting than
misidentified balloons, meteorites, or even extraterrestrial space craft occasionally flitting across our skies
performing mundane activities like ferrying weekend “tourists”, or conducting anthropological surveys.
Many who have had these “encounters”, particularly those who have had the courage to come to terms with it
tend to come out transformed in unique and often beneficial ways. It has lead me to speculate that the
ramifications of these psychological transformations may eventually make their way into our mundane society,
and by doing so eventually influencing it. Perhaps some of these “encounter” experiences when perceived from a
sociological POV have on occasion played pivotal roles in transforming society and civilization in ways difficult to
fathom. Perhaps the purpose of some of these personally experienced psychological “transformations” that make
up much of the encounter experience play an integral role in the fabric that makes us homo sapiens.
I have often asked myself: are these “encounters” really alien interactions, meaning extraterrestrial encounters
with beings from other planets? Perhaps in the end we will eventually come to the conclusion that many of these
experiences are not so alien after all. However, in order to consider such possibilities we as a society may need
to look within ourselves. More to the point, what intimate part of ourselves might we have possibly alienated from
ourselves, our soul? We may need to fathom who and what we really are not only as unique individuals behaving
as if we possess independent free will, but also from from the perspective of “being” an integral part of vast
collective intelligences. On that point: No child wants to grow up... at least not too quickly!
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