Born 1959 in Germany, I am a tao alchemist, a photo-,visionary and digital artist; a spontaneous awakening (kundalini) a rebirth and transformation that reshaped both my life and creative path was the disruption of my early career and led me to confront my shadow self-part and heal childabuse past trauma which became a selfhelp journey and quest for the Higher Self, being a light to myself.My foundation is rooted in self-taught most of the time,in still photography on film sets, in black-and-white labs, and only briefly in commercial advertising besides other works.I collaborated with the Henry Boxer Gallery in London, and my work has appeared on international book covers.Since 2021, I was building on nearly two decades of photo editing, namely Photoshop. My non-conformist approach led to *Kniff Art* (2016 -), a pure surrealist automatism and flow-state practice transforming formless digital imagery into imaginative compositions and new forms—beginning with a kind of visual “nothingness”.Working also outside commercial structures allowing experimental exploration before AI became mainstream.Since 2023 I’ve engaged in AI-gen expanding with surrealist text automatism and beyond 'refining' what needed to be refined.My art emerges as an expression of my human experience through the 'lens' of a solo artist.This includes also economic disadvantages and restrictions based on simply being a non academic artist; by social means unmarried and childless always been biased and coping with it was the challenge.

' 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 

All generative (“procedural”) techniques available in media software are “digital art'' 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. _ quote Inside Photoshop by Lev Manovich .This is one of the few good statements I found recently resonating with my own perspective on this matter.- Academic art, or the institutionalization of art education, has stifled creativity is a growing concern among educators and artists. This viewpoint stems from the observation that an overemphasis on theoretical, formulaic, and research-driven approaches—common in higher education and modern schooling—can suppress individual expression, imagination, and experimentation and is also the reason for having difficulties to sell because digital art turned into an academic 'specialist' activity seeking advantages for themselves and constant inspiration (research) from the non academic artists and thus turn them into outsiders and muses rather than equal creators.