Born in Germany in 1959, I am a largely self-taught visionary photographer, digital artist and Tao Alchemist working across photography, drawing, painting, digital processes and AI-assisted image making. My practice is rooted in a lifelong exploration of perception, transformation and the relationship between the conscious, unconscious and collective imagination.

My artistic journey grew out of personal transformation. A Kundalini awakening became a kind of inner rebirth—a return to consciousness and to an essential self beyond inherited patterns. Long before I encountered the language of Jungian individuation or Eckhart Tolle’s writing, I was already moving intuitively through these territories. Creating became a way of moving from darkness towards light and of continually renewing myself.

2016, I have developed an intuitive digital practice beginning with deliberately blurred photographs of green nature. I use the camera not simply to record the visible world, but as raw material from which something unknown can emerge. In Photoshop, I transform seemingly formless pixels into new, imagined forms—an organic, human-led generative process developed years before AI became part of my practice.

Ex Nihilo / Kniff Art describes this approach: creating form from apparent formlessness. Green became my point of departure because of its connection to nature, renewal and the visible spectrum, while also evoking prima natura and the alchemical idea of prima materia—the original, undifferentiated substance from which form emerges.I have worked digitally since 2000, approaching the computer from my background in analogue photography and darkroom practice. What began as a continuation of making the latent visible gradually became a personal visual language developed outside conventional artistic frameworks.

Since 2023, I have incorporated AI-assisted image generation. I initially approached AI almost as a camera with a motor drive: a tool for speed, chance, surrealism and discovery. My interest, however, lies less in generation itself than in authorship, intuition and transformation. I use text, imagery and emerging technologies to explore what can happen between intention and the unexpected. My practice follows a less-is-more philosophy: thoughtful creation rather than endless generation. Whether working with a photograph, a digital construction, animation or AI, I am interested in the moment when something unforeseen becomes visible—when the formless begins to take form. 

My background includes a diploma in analogue photography with one year private photoschool, black-and-white darkroom printing, film production stills, fashion photographer's assistence and commercial photography in Munich for 2,5 years. I later developed an independent digital practice spanning book-cover imagery, crime and thriller aesthetics, self-scouted subjects and explorations of the collective unconscious.My work has been exhibited, published and presented internationally, including through Henry Boxer Gallery in London, Shrine’s The Empty Gallery in New York, the Computer Arts Society, Zoom International Magazine in Italy, and wise.art in Geneva.

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