Dlela Lombard
Born in Germany, I am a visionary, a photo and digital artist with roots in analogue photography, with diploma however overall self-taught, some advertisement, experience in black&white darkroom work, film set work, and book cover art digital photography inclusive scouting my own models outdoors.My family background was post-war with a father line of film and also military.Unfortunately abuse happened. At 30 ys a kundalini awakening significantly transformed my life through healing of childhood scars, rebirth and individuation into consciousness and leaving the past as a blank page; Awakened to the spiritual eye as an extension of the camera lens, I see beyond the physical, exploring formless consciousness and spiritual phenomena both with and without a camera. Since starting with Photoshop in 2000, my digital art practice has continually evolved, focusing also on ephemeral, pixelated forms and formless states without relying on AI.I could see with the 'eye of my mind' a 💡 moment how to begin and transformed formless photo pixel content ( a blurred green natural outdoors) into new imaginary forms.Through a non-conformist photo-editing my digital art was born and applied this technique later to photographs, painted pieces and ai generated art to evolve a digital painting style.
Since 2023, I’ve integrated AI generation through spontaneous surrealist text automatism,shooting as if with a camera motor drive, and photo editing set itself as a basic foundation to inform my digital art practice aiming to further explore visually the interconnected themes of the natural world and its relations as this is already part of my visionary consciousness. I prefer to approach the digital medium non-analytically and non-conceptually;I am focusing on intuition embracing various themes while evolving a more selective style.Early photo-based works were exhibited at Henry Boxer Gallery in London, Brighton & Hove Art Museum and Computer Arts Society London; Digital Photography was published with Zoom International Magazine Italy.It was described then as the "First Fine Art International Photography Magazine".
The terms "generative art" and "computer art" have been used in tandem, and more or less interchangeably, since the very earliest days.
