As an artist, Michal has always endeavored to be fluid and responsive to place. Ningaaseg searches for the wind, for the feel of how water moves around the reeds knee-deep on the shore of a slow-moving river. Michael’s work is focused on the Great Lakes environment, land, water, and what it is to be Anishinaabe. These liminal sites are spiritually active places. Shorelines that mark the threshold between opposing elements of water, earth, and sky are similar to the liminal states of beings, such as in the dream between sleep and awake. In the Anishinaabe worldview, the universe is understood to be composed of layers.