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I am a largely self-taught visionary photographer and digital artist working across photography, drawing, painting, digital processes, and AI-assisted image making.

My artistic practice emerged through profound personal transformation. Rooted in childhood experiences, an identity crisis, and the gradual healing of the inner child and 'pain-body' (defined by Eckhart Tolle), some of my work reflect a journey that was less a reinvention than a return—a renaissance into consciousness, our timeless, essential nature. While the process of individuation informs my practice, the work is not simply autobiographical. Instead, it explores universal questions of perception, transformation, imagination, and the relationship between the visible and the unseen.

Since 2016, I have developed an intuitive, non-conformist digital practice rooted in direct engagement with nature. Beginning with deliberately blurred photographs of foliage and landscapes, I transform seemingly formless pixels into imagined worlds, symbolic figures, and dreamlike visual states. This process challenges conventional ideas of photography and digital art, demonstrating how new artistic languages often emerge by breaking established rules.

Long before incorporating AI, I spent years developing an organic, human-led generative process in Photoshop, creating images from unrefined photographic data without algorithmic assistance. Working with digital media since 2000, I have remained driven by curiosity about the expressive possibilities of the medium itself, developing original approaches outside institutional frameworks.

In 2023, I began integrating AI-assisted image generation into my practice. Initially, I embraced its speed, unpredictability, and surrealist potential, using platforms such as NightCafeCreator to evolve my own source material through experimentation. As the medium matured, so did my approach. Today I use AI selectively and deliberately, treating it as one tool among many rather than an end in itself. My practice prioritises authorship, intentionality, and sustainability, embracing a "less is more" philosophy that values thoughtful creation over excessive generation. Having approached NFTs only cautiously after the cryptocurrency market collapse, I regard AI not as a shortcut but as another evolving artistic medium to be explored responsibly.

My background is in analogue photography. I trained in black-and-white darkroom printing, worked as a stills photographer on film productions, assisted fashion photographer Monika Robl, and later worked as an in-house photographer in Munich producing commercial imagery for ski wear and BMW. Following a significant personal turning point and years away from commercial photography, I returned to image-making with an independent artistic vision.

My work has been exhibited and published internationally, including collaborations with Henry Boxer Gallery in London, Shrine's The Empty Gallery in New York, the Computer Arts Society in London, and publications such as *Zoom International Magazine* (Italy). Since 2006, my ongoing study of the writings of Eckhart Tolle, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and C. G. Jung has deeply informed my understanding of consciousness, creativity, and individuation.

Across all media, my practice seeks to transform the ordinary into the visionary, inviting viewers into images that exist between photography and painting, chance and intention, the conscious and the unconscious, where perception itself becomes an act of discovery.