An Escape Towards Liberty by Thomas Lawson is a collaboration with artist Andrea Bowers and was published by Nothing Moments Press in the fall of 2007. This book is a collection of stories about exploration, imperialism and the false promises of adventure. A romance of voyage but not a lovely one. Thomas Lawson is an artist, writer, magazine editor, and Dean of the School of Art at California Institute for the Arts. He emerged as a central figure in ideological debates at the turn of the 1980s about the viability of painting through critical essays, such as Last Exit: Painting".