They suggest that the whole composition featured largely vegetal themes and scenes made up of picturesque buildings, suburbs, and villages set in fanciful landscapes.
But it is hardly devoid of fanciful landscapes, including Tiki, a tropical island, and Saja, a cloud city, both of which have proved to appeal to women.
(There's just one set, a fanciful jungle landscape by Jon Craine, abloom in vines and mushrooms. In the second act, set at night, everything goes Day-Glo).
Yet there is a difference: the art is fanciful, the imagined landscapes of the creative mind; the geology of Wulingyuan has produced more than 100 square miles of landscape that is very much the real thing, however fantastic it might at first appear.
The fanciful and visionary landscapes that adorn the walls of student summer shows are a part of the process used to train people in team problem-solving in areas of great uncertainty and complexity.
And while there are still the familiar elements of sand and water, they are no longer there to be shoveled and splashed so much as turned into landscapes of fanciful design.
"The house itself can be humble -- that rustic-hut idea," said Mr. Smith, who prides himself on his dexterity at grafting historical landscape concepts with fanciful, modern (and even artificial) materials.
In addition to being the chef at the pousada's thatch-roofed restaurant, his other talents reveal themselves in the meticulously coiffed landscaping and the fanciful Gaudí-esque tile work that graces Santa Clara's twisting pathways.
The 1920s home, set amid mature trees and lush landscaping, has such fanciful details as a brick façade, picture windows with diamond grilles and a steep stairway that leads up to the front door.
