Michael Basanko’s work is as much about finding the perfect spot and setting the right scene as it is about what his light art ads to the mix. In a way he works like a sketch artist tracing simple images over complex and richly photographic ground-and-sky-scapes. He paints gestural figures and elemental skylines against natural and artificial backdrops, sometimes pitting his subjects against the scenery and other times playing directly into it. (Source)