Fantasy

There is something so magical about fantasy... It is the ultimate in imagination. The ultimate in creativity. The ultimate art, in that sense.

To create a good fantasy is to literally create a new world. I suppose, in this case, that's what any good art should do: submerge you in a world of possibility.

Reflections of reality always seem to influence more than reality itself. People have become so jaded to actual reality–they are so submerged in news and facts and horror–that the only way to cut through the muck is with a well spun story or abstraction.

Analogies. Metaphors. Similes. Symbolism. That is what thoughts are made of. That is what our unconscious is made of. Maybe the only way to cut through to the truth in our heads is to speak its own language: fiction.