I am a self-taught + artist, Tao alchemist, photo-visionary, digital artist, and techspressionist. A spontaneous awakening marked a 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 childhood abuse and trauma; My gratitude to the original creator.

My artistic foundation began with a basic 1 year private school photoschool diploma followed by still photography on film sets and in black-and-white darkrooms, and 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 and in Zoom International Magazine at their time.

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.In the digital medium my creation simply began with a green blurred nothing (here showing a reference,pointer image) - it was an artistic Ex Nihilo.Since 2001, I have worked extensively with Photoshop CS6. Over time, a non-conformist photo-editing approach evolved into what I call Kniff Art: a practice of pure surrealist automatism and flow state, transforming in a flow formless green blurred digital imagery into imaginative compositions and new visual forms, a lettting go of photo editing in the usual sense and pioneering primarily for myself, much of it outside commercial structures, allowing for exploratory experimental processes long before I heard of AI and creative coding."For a long time I needed to stay off social media to focus better on my work." Since 2023, I have expanded into daily practice through AI generation, integrating surrealist text automatism and evolving as well as slowing down.

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 One version of my new forms is with CAS  BCS Moorgate, London as Artist: Dlela Lombard, featured with Tree of Life (2023).