An immersive video 180 degree video installation in a cardboard geodesic dome inspired by the natural world and the power of imagination discovered during coronavirus lockdown March 2020.

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‘Escapism is mental diversion from unpleasant or boring aspects of daily life, typically through activities involving imagination, .. to occupy one's self away from persistent feelings of depression or general sadness. The word “escapism” often carries a negative connotation, suggesting that escapists are unhappy, with an inability or unwillingness to connect meaningfully with the world. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary defined escapism as “The tendency to seek distraction from what normally has to be endured”. However, many challenge this.. Freud considers a quota of escapist fantasy a necessary element in the life of humans’

‘Animism (from Latin anima, “breath, spirit, life”) is the belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things - animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork - as animated and alive. It is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of many indigenous peoples.. Animism encompasses the beliefs that all material phenomena have agency, that there exists no hard and fast distinction between the spiritual and physical world and that soul or spirit or sentience exists not only in humans, but also in other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers or other entities of the natural environment: water sprites, vegetation deities, tree sprites. ’

 (Abbreviated from Wikipedia)