Like many kids raised in Hollywood’s backyard, Mike was hypnotized with the creation of images. Watching favorite movies like Punch Drunk Love, Miami Vice and Tropical Maladies, sharpened Mike's stunning, waking dream like aesthetic.

Mike sets his scenes up with natural and artificial light, heightening the color and transporting us to magical, unearthly places. His surroundings feel serene, deja vu familiar, supernatural. The liquidity of the light lends an extravagance to a normally ordinary suburban landscape.