Michals demonstrated that photography didn’t have to be about a concrete reality. Instead he used the medium to explore philosophical and spiritual beliefs. He wanted to capture the mind’s interior thoughts and all its complex neuroses. He achieved these aims by using a cinematic technique of sequenced images to tell a story over time. He often employed his own hand written comments to elaborate the story, yielding a personal, memoir like effect. Death is a theme often visited in his sequences. He employs blurring as a technique to denote an evanescence of spirit and energy.