"That's so surreal, man!"

Mysterious worlds are often subjects of artworks. By focusing on dreams and fantasies, artists may invent imaginative worlds for us to consider. In such works as Exploration of the Sources, artist Remedios Varo seems to go to secret dreamlike worlds. They are worlds where objects come alive, people become plants, and nothing is as we expect it.

Centuries before science would explain much of our universe, people used their imaginations to explain what they could not understand. They wondered about the origin of fire or how the sun "moved" across the sky. As they wondered, they asked questions to help them find solutions to the puzzles. Their artworks showed what they imagined when they asked these questions.

After studying about these fantasy worlds, Eighth grade artists had to create  a fantasy of their own.