This interest starts for me at about age 8. I would go to the natural history museum in Milwaukee, The Milwaukee Public Museum, with my grand parents, Henry and Catherine Klimowicz. My parent also took me but I remember my trips with my grandparents because I would give them a tour of all the great worlds. I was fascinated with the coexistence of spaces within this one large building, Old Milwaukee exists under a polar bear.

The Milwaukee Public Museum is important within the history of natural history museums . It is one of the first Museums to let the audience into the box or behind the glass. The viewer walks through Old Milwaukee. He feels the temperature in Africa as hotter then that of the arctic. He hears bird as he sees them. The audience is expected to find things and not everything will be found on his first visit. I have tried to bring most of these aspects to my own installation work.

The present work does not deal with many of these important issues except for one. Some of the pieces seem to have more then one scale. They can be seen as the surface of the sun or a magnified image of a cell . Either way the viewer will inevitably be standing in front of a slightly larger then life object who’s parts are much smaller then it’s whole.

HCK

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