The 1960s peace movement in the US was a response to the Cold War and the Vietnam War and, perhaps, on a deeper psycho-cultural level, the inability of mass production, consumerism and conformity to media-promoted norms to deliver a feeling of personal happiness.
“(P)eace, love and happiness revisited” is a work that suggests while the movement’s dream was pure and worthy, it was fated to corruption and decay because it was not solidly grounded in a culture of deep beliefs enacted.
Skyler wonders, as we are now passing through another terrible time in which civil rights, woman’s rights and concern for the environment are not priorities to celebrate and defend, could there be another flowering of enlightenment?
Look closely at the piece and you will see academia and political authority figures on the right and nature/nurture symbols on the left--as well as sinister forces in the upper left and upper center of the work--staring intently at a weathered peace sign.
