In his sequences he usually achieves this by posing a question that has no answer, a question that is like a Zen koan… what is the sound of one hand clapping? The grandfather ascends smilingly to heaven with little wings on his back as the child waves goodbye (if youth knew, if age could); the man as human condition turns into a galaxy; and the spirit leaves the body as it was left before.

Various Michals sequences, such as The Spirit Leaves The Body (1968, below), have a circular construction. Another sequence, Things are Queer (1973, below) is also a circular spatio-temporal enigma where instead of moving forward, the camera and the viewer are pulled backwards in a space-time continuum… where Michals forces you to question what reality really is.

Michals sequences are full of ghosts, uncommon intimacies, nubile females and males. Dealing “with topics such as death, desire, and the passage of time” his work peers inward to examine “his own thoughts and dreams, to blur the lines between photography and philosophy.”

Contains 14 stories solely conveyed with sequenced black and white photos : "The Human Condition", "Paradise Regained", "Chance Meeting", "The Young Girl's Dream", "Death Comes to the Old Lady", "The Voyeur's Pleasure Becomes Pain", "The Fallen Angel", "The Moments Before the Tragedy", "The Memory of a Kiss", "The Spirit Leaves the Body", "The Sad Farewell", "The Birth of Eve", "The Senseless Act", and "The Lost Shoe".