I am a self-taught artist, Tao alchemist, photo-visionary, digital artist, and techspressionist. A spontaneous awakening—often described as a Kundalini experience—marked a profound rebirth and transformation that reshaped both my life and my creative path. This disruption ended my early career trajectory and compelled me to confront my shadow self and heal deep childhood abuse and trauma. Through this process, personal physical suffering—the “pain body”—became the catalyst for transformation into a renewed body and mind, reconnecting with the original creator within.My artistic foundation began in still photography on film sets and in black-and-white darkrooms, followed by a short period in commercial advertising. I later collaborated with the Henry Boxer Gallery in London, and my photographic work appeared on international book covers, often centered on noir themes.Since 2001, I have worked extensively with Photoshop CS6. Over time, a non-conformist photo-editing approach (developed from 2016 onward) evolved into what I call Kniff Art: a practice of pure surrealist automatism and flow state, transforming formless digital imagery into imaginative compositions and new visual forms. In this sense, I became a pioneer primarily for myself.This method grew out of nearly two decades of weekly image editing and experimentation, much of it outside commercial structures, allowing for exploratory processes long before AI and creative coding entered the mainstream."For a long time I deliberately stayed off social media to fully dedicate myself to my digital projects."Since 2023, I have expanded this practice through AI generation, integrating surrealist text automatism and continuing a daily exploration beyond traditional boundaries.

Manly P. Hall, a 20th-century mystic and philosopher, taught that the awakening of KUNDALINI—the dormant, coiled energy at the base of the spine—is a transformative process that alters consciousness, leading to the creation of NEW FORMS, both in terms of inner spiritual experience and outer creative expression. TIMELESS WISDOM OF ALL AGES. To create is to perform work through availability of energy.To possess Shakti is therefore to possess the power to act upon creation and bring forth new forms.Creating from the formless dimension—nothingness,consciousness itself— is the expression of pure essence and the foundation of my creativity.''The universe enjoys the play of form and one can be a medium for it''_Eckhart Tolle

It’s another version of an old gatekeeping argument about purity, authenticity, and technical mastery to state that artworks that involve writing computer code qualify as “digital art” while artworks created using Photoshop or other media applications do not.''_ Dr. Lev Manovich / Computational Culture / Inside Photoshop