Fantasy through a different lens

By MELANIE VAN BERKEL

While growing up, reality starts to take over our lives. We learn how things are supposed to be and that’s not always how we want them to be. Nowadays, there are many options to enter new magical worlds. From books, to events and the recently arising metaverse. Fantasy is often used as a way to escape the threatening reality we’ve to face every day and enter a fantastic realm full of mythical creatures, but it can be much more than that. What can it be?