Fantasy Fountain

Greg Wyatt’s Fantasy Fountain, created in the early 1980s, is a bronze sculptural composition celebrating the imaginative relationship between humanity, nature, and the celestial universe. Originally exhibited in Central Park and subsequently installed in Manhattan’s historic Gramercy Park, the sculpture brings together the expressive imagery of a smiling sun and moon surrounded by gracefully dancing giraffes. Through its rhythmic movement, organic forms, and imaginative symbolism, Fantasy Fountain reveals the harmonious relationships between earthly life and the greater cosmic order. The sculptural composition unites the innocence of childhood imagination with the universal principles of form, growth, and natural beauty. Its interplay of light, shadow, flowing water, and bronze surfaces creates a poetic dialogue between sculpture and its surrounding environment. Significantly, Fantasy Fountain became the artistic precursor to Wyatt’s monumental Peace Fountain, unveiled in 1985 at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, where the original themes of nature, celestial harmony, and creative imagination developed into a larger spiritual allegory.