Julian Hutchins Personal Information

My motivation in life is information. Learning is a constant goal, as it grants more of it. Computers are fascinating to me because they are machines that store, process, and communicate it. The best way to irritate me is to lock me in a room with someone who is ignorant and proud of it - their closed mind and inanimate life are my antithesis.

I fully believe that everything you ever do should be done as best and completely as you can. I've never seen a situation where putting minimal effort into it was the best solution. The only way to grow is to throw yourself at your limitations.

I believe art requires two things: It must take a great effort to create (be it of the mind or body), and it needs to be pleasing to the senses. Other aims are secondary, and are commonly detrimental. Most art today disappoints me, being yet another Modern or Post-Modern mess that took no effort to create, existing merely to give a certain clique a way to feel and act intellectually superior.

I can't claim to be inspired by any other artist, though I do venerate H. R. Giger. While his work may be controversial, the quality and detail of his work seems... Almost beyond human. He leaves not an inch of an image sparse, yet somehow prevents every shape and texture from overwhelming the depiction at large. And such subtlety! Small points that seem inconsequential but invite such rumination along so many lines...

In my own art, I tend to try to avoid symbolism as it seems to me a way of increasing popularity with some group at the cost of excluding all others. I don't depict real life because if one doesn't already appreciate it, no amount of art will change that. I generally don't use art as a means of communication because it tends to be so inconcise. I suppose you could say my art is abstracted from reality, but please don't confuse that with the misnomered "Abstract" style and such other "High Art".