HYPERSOMNIA: Revolution Gallery, Buffalo NY, 2021. Escapism is a theory of mental diversion from ordinary daily life. I have always been fascinated and enthralled by space travel and our future as a species, for better or worse, since I was young. I grew up with a lot of anxiety, I saw the world around us and wondered if there was something better out there on a cosmic scale. Producing planets and nebulas became therapeutic for me, It allowed me to escape into otherworldly creations. Where I can control all the outcomes and variables. Image-making in Blender, a 3D rendering program, allowed me the versatility to create my vision of escapism.