Nicholas's escape from difficult and at times traumatic issues in his upbringing was often through video games and the internet. Both were new media and were forming a new world at that time. Watching the focus of society shift broadly from analog to digital, while at the same time undergoing a reconstruction of his own personal reality profoundly influenced, and found expression through, his art. These shifts in how truth is perceived inform Lenker's interest in how we all understand what is "real". The rise of "new media" continues to fascinate and influence Nicholas Lenker's work as an artist.