Day of Remembrance: Jim Henson
Today - May 16, 1990 - marks the anniversary of Jim Henson’s passing.
What has always stayed with me isn’t just what he created, but how he created it. There’s a kind of quiet intentionality in his work where even the smallest details feel like they belong to a real, fully lived-in world: strange, funny, theatrical, melancholy, comforting, and deeply sincere all at once. He understood that fantasy wasn’t escapism from emotion, but a way inward to embrace them.
These photos are from the set of Labyrinth, but what they really show is something bigger: a director who treated imagination as something physical. Built. Handled. Shared.
His magnum opus, Labyrinth, was his vision brought to life - an outer world and inner world carefully crafted and refined to feel like it existed somewhere just offscreen, waiting for others to step into. Even now, decades later, his work still feels alive in a way that most media doesn’t. Not manufactured. Not cynical. Alive.
That’s a legacy that doesn’t fade... 🥲