I believe that art should engage emotion, foster imagination, and challenge people to think more deeply about existence. The violent and often self-destructive nature of humanity suggests that we have lost connection with our frailty. This urges me to consider an aesthetic that highlights the precarious balance of human survival. I am most enthralled with art that stimulates me in a visceral, emotional, and physically effective way. I am interested in the nervous energy that courses through the threatened mind and how to create power in a work of art through its ability to access the nervous system. Because the most common triggers of this sensation have to do with sublimation, self-preservation, and the employment of shock; contemporary artists have favored a loud, clear, but often too simple or empty approach. I challenge viewers by engaging in an abstraction of symbol, a slight obfuscation, arrived at through supple draftsmanship. Through intensive research concerning various projects relating to themes of frailty, biological equilibrium, and survival I produce work to grasp my audience’s attention with a bold aesthetic and harbor it with curious juxtapositions of codified information. Brian T. Hutchinson