Michel was born the youngest child in a family of five from Psychotherapist parents in Le Bourgneuf-la-Forêt, France.

After a normal childhood, he used his classical music foundations to learn to play the guitar and consequently dropped out of school to pursue a career as a musician for hire and freelance sound engineer. Fifteen years in the music business taught him numerous lessons about music and life.

He moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1997 and there he held various positions from kennel attendant to psychiatric emergency security guard, litter patrolman and animal control officer. During the eight years spent in Florida, Michel was involved in the house music scene and a couple of obscure bands and some musician-for-hire gigs.

Michel moved to Asheville, North Carolina in 2005 and has lived in the area ever since. While Covid was happening, Michel did some internal work, and started making objects using the found objects, mostly plastic, dumped in a private pit located on the property where he lived back then as well as his own household plastic trash.

Michel also works as a Peer Support Specialist in outreach projects tailored to unhoused people.

 

Everyone has a story; we are all people first: these two facts are the backbones of his outreach as well as his art production. Michel continues to do music work, mostly studio work, but he also does live music performances.