Welcome to the Sunscribes™ portfolio, a living archive of heliography where focused sunlight, lenses, and mirrors etch stories into wood. Explore portraits, landscapes, animals, and brand commissions that range from intimate heirlooms to immersive, live performance pieces for weddings, events and experiential brand activations.
PORTRAITS
What you’ll find here is more than a gallery, it’s the ongoing story of Sunscribes™, a bold experiment matured into a living art form. Each work records the instant sunlight chose to sign its name, etched in heat, shadow, and time. With every year the scale widens, the linework deepens, and the vocabulary of styles expands, from spare to ornate, intimate to monumental. The Sun is both instrument and partner, and together Michael keeps testing the edges of what light can remember. This collection is a waypoint, not a finish line, it's evidence of where the journey has traveled and an open question of how far it can still go.
LANDSCAPES
At Sunscribes™, creation unfolds through two lenses. One bends sunlight into fire, the other gathers that same light into memory. The camera is no afterthought, it is a vital instrument in Michael's toolkit. As the magnifying glass engraves the story, the camera lens preserves its unfolding, frame by frame. What remains is both artifact and film, a sun-etched object paired with the living record of its becoming, so you can return to the very moment light first said yes.
ANIMALS
Over the years, Sunscribes™ has captured the attention of some of the world’s most iconic brands and stages, collaborating with Anheuser-Busch, 20th Century Fox, GoPro, Corona, Jinro, The Balvenie, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, TEDx, and more.
This solar-forged artistry has been showcased not only at private events and brand activations, but also across major international media. From NBC, CBS, CNN, and FOX to The Kelly Clarkson Show and Steve Harvey, Sunscribes™ has been celebrated as a groundbreaking fusion of art, performance, and storytelling. Each collaboration stands as proof that Michael's work resonates far beyond the canvas, it’s a spectacle recognized, remembered, and revered on the world stage.
BRANDS
Yet Sunscribes™ is far from finished. Michael continues to push the boundaries of what sunlight can create, testing how vast a canvas can stretch, how fine a detail can burn, how far a beam of light can reach. Each experiment asks a larger question;
Is there even a limit? Or does the end simply circle back to the beginning? Perhaps every line drawn in fire points us toward that original focal point, the spark from which all life emerged, the birthplace of creation itself.
THE SKIES THE LIMIT!
WITH EVERY PIECE, SUNSCRIBES™ REACHES CLOSER TO THAT HORIZON, SEARCHING FOR THE INFINITE WITHIN A SINGLE RAY OF LIGHT.
If something here spoke to you, whether an idea for a wedding, an event, or a gift that leaves people speechless, this is your moment. Share your vision, reserve a date and Michael will craft a custom Sunscribes™ piece etched by the Sun itself. For those who want the full story, Michael can also include a cinematic film of the creation, so you’ll always have the memory of when the light first touched your story. Dates are limited, the opportunity is rare, but the impact is forever.
Let’s make yours the one no one forgets!
