[2] Along his photo-collages, he uses gouache, woad, and handwritten texts which reveal his playful wit and prioritization of subjective experience as an important part of his artworks.
[3] A native of London, Hutchinson moved to the United States in 1952 and received his BFA in painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960.
These interventions often utilize flowers, food, and found objects to interact with the landscape, including the ocean, mountains, fields, beaches, volcanoes, icebergs, deserts, and other natural environments.
This bread was used to grow mold over a 6-day period with the change in color visible from photos of the volcano taken from the air.
Hutchinson also used palindromes in his work “Step on no pets” in 1973, and “God saw I was Dog, Dog saw I was God” in 1976, set of 5 color and black and white photographs, a piece in the permanent collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, in Paris, France.