Escapism
During our lives we can suffer dure to work pressure, affairs of the heart, frustrated desires, health problems or we simply get bored and feel a need to be distracted through some other activity. We are usuallly not always satisfied with what we are and what we have. Most of us at some point in our lives must have asked the question, how would our life be if we were living in another place or if we had met different people? An infinite range of other questions about alternative possibilities and lives are not of course answerable and realistic which creates a need to be constantly distracted in order to get rid ourselves of these tensions. Amusement, fantasy and isolation help us evae unpleasant realities. We have developed a myriad of creative forms of escape and distraction to fill our timesome of which are listed below.
All of these mechanisms have the same aim which is to achieve a state of temporary ecstasy and detachment from our everyday surroundings.
This is a project about the continuos escape from our birth to our death - the final steop of the journey. As the message on the tombstone in the penultimate image of this series states:
"The troubles and dislakes lacerated my heart and because of them my painful existence became extinct at the end and I finally rest!"
