Hovering UFO places a gleaming saucer against an improbably lush botanical backdrop, the collision of eras and registers entirely intentional. Nashville-based artist Samantha Hearn draws from the visual grammar of mid-century science fiction — saturated skies, hard-edged spacecraft, cinematic scale — and layers it with the organic abundance of a botanical illustration to create something that is simultaneously nostalgic and unsettling. It is a deadpan piece that earns its humour through compositional precision.

Printed as an archival fine art print in our Berlin studio, the saturated colour and intricate collage detail are rendered with excellent sharpness and definition. The matte surface keeps the vintage tones true in this fine art print, preserving every layer of Hearn's carefully constructed scene.