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Foraging is a deeply personal and ambitious work by Peter Hutchinson that documents a six-day backpacking trip near Aspen, chronicled through a typewritten journal and photographs. The piece recounts the journey’s events, including a harrowing encounter with poisonous mushrooms—an incident that resulted in Hutchinson and his companion suffering from violent illness. Hutchinson’s journal reflects not only the mishap but also his philosophical musings on nature, existence, and the contrasts between serene mountain landscapes and urban poverty: “I watch the moon rise and try to understand how such calm mountain pastures can exist in the same world as the slums of New York City.”
At its core, Foraging represents Hutchinson’s most intimate and literal exploration of life and art, aligning his personal experiences with his creative process. As Hutchinson writes, “The closer one’s art gets to one’s life, the more valid it is,” and in this work, the boundary between the two blurs completely. The narrative spans a mix of vivid personal reflections, surreal visions of the universe, and the mundane realities of a simple backpacking journey. This sense of paradox is reflected in Hutchinson’s description of time and space as fictions, suggesting that the very nature of reality may be a lie.
While Foraging holds a sense of life-and-death urgency due to the mushroom incident, its true depth lies in its juxtaposition of the extraordinary and the ordinary. Hutchinson ties the experience to the “ancient tribal cultures of food gatherers” and contrasts the more intimate aspects of human experience with cosmic revelations. In doing so, Foraging marks Hutchinson’s shift from earth art to story art, transitioning into a broader exploration of narrative and reality—a work that is as much about the simplicity of everyday life as it is about the vastness of the universe.
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Based on information found on Artforum’s website.
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