Fantasy and Reality
"As a younger person, I would have loved to enter a Tolkien-esque world (and could easily pass for a hobbit too!), and some of the imaginary worlds I was drawing as a teenager, but I don't really have those kind of escapist longings any more. More and more I see fantasy worlds - as in The Arrival - as a way of tapping into the real world, of trying to understand reality better through a speculative lens. If I was to visit that world, I would immediately lose my bearings, like entering a metaphor without its real-world anchorage. I prefer to visit using only a pencil on paper."
-Shaun Tan
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i find that my fantasy worlds get simpler and simpler as i grow older. escaping doesn't need to be ellaborate anymore. my conditions on happiness are less strict than they used to be. maybe because they feel less attainable, i don't know. so does that mean i'm giving up, or is it a pleasant way of being more easily satisfied? it probably depends on the day and my mood...