Fantasy Land

Rich with gestural flourishes and hints towards figuration, Lynne Taetzsch’s Fantasy Land is an imaginative depiction of imagination. The joy of getting lost in one’s own mind, letting fleeting or expansive and serialized fantasies run wild, is among the greatest in the world. Imagination is beautiful not only because of the pleasure it brings or the works of art it engenders but also in its solitude. Most of our fantasies remain internal; creations, artworks that never materialize except within us. They are personal and ephemeral artworks that entertain us through good times and bad. Fantasy grows like the presents work’s tree of gestural brushstrokes and sometimes blossoms into a physical work of art, and other times comes to fruition without ever entering the exterior world. I am very taken with this idea and will certainly return to it in a longer form newsletter. For now, I will leave you with a quote from one of my favorite filmmakers, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s finest movies, The Decameron: “why create a work of art…when dreaming about it is so much sweeter?” I think every artist knows why, but also understands the sentiment.