I explore the results and ramifications of scientific study through embedded practice, collaboration, and independent investigation. Of particular interest to me at the moment is the question of a common primate aesthetic: we share much of our sensory apparatus with our closest living relatives, yet little is known about the visual perception and preferences of apes and monkeys. Inspired by a series of experiments conducted by Desmond Morris with a chimpanzee named Congo, my latest work involves the participation of rhesus macaques. Through drawing intervention with these monkeys, iPad applications, performance lecture, and constructed objects, I grapple with the implications of an evolutionary basis for art, as well as the historical and contemporary narratives that foster captive research on primates.