downtown Milwaukee, Druecke created an immersive, dimly lit environment.

A 50 x 36” c-print was the main focal point. On approaching the image, viewers walked across painted masonite boards installed on the floor to record dusty footprints. Seven additional 4 x 6” photos from the series were presented, unframed, on adjacent walls. Visitors could also listened to the artist’s internal monologue on portable cassette players.

OutInto 1997 - 1998
Install dimensions variable
color photos, 2 channel audio, cassette players, 4 x 4’ masonite panels painted matte black

The projects consists of 108 photographs taken over a nine-month period in 1997. Each photograph features a view through a window into a dimly lit interior of a Milwaukee residence at night. Druecke reflects on the project in his Travelogue, “I walk at night to enjoy the orange glow of lit windows—my own brand of television. The glass that separates me from so many other lives is not (so much) a voyeuristic magnifying glass. It is a microscopic lens focusing on intimate, if generic, atoms. The building blocks of us and our world. I peer miraculously into the grand molecular soup. We are all the same, made of the same material, engaged in the same activity—life, albeit in different rooms.” By capturing the photographs from an outsider's perspective, OutInto invites viewers to reconsider their relationships to neighborhoods and the people living there.

For his solo exhibition at the former Hermetic Gallery in

In the Milwaukee Art Museum’s catalog for A Social Event Archive, curator Lisa Sutcliffe writes the project “reveal[s] the artist's early interest in the voyeuristic impulse.”