Michael grew up in suburban Dearborn, Michigan, (the home of the Ford Motor Company) during the post-WWII heyday of the auto industry. He has always been a very visual person who has moved easily in several arenas between the concrete and the abstract.
Michael is stimulated by both the organic and the designed. He combines his interests in the visual search for and exploration of machines and other constructions in nature and of nature and the coincidental in the midst of structure.