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"Dlela Lombard is a visionary self-taught photo artist and alchemist whose artistic digital journey has spanned over two decades. Her unique approach to the digital medium combines a scientific mindset with a deep understanding of artistic expression, allowing her to transform formless photo pixels of the natural world into imaginative, vibrant forms. In her hands, color and shape emerge with their own distinct essence, turning the act of creation into an exploration of the formless dimension.By translating the formless essence into visual art, emphasizing a personal connection that transcends gender and sexual orientation, each artistic digital creation captures emotions and encounters with the ethereal, imbuing the work with universal significance. Having roots in black and white analogue photography, Lombard perceives her spiritual eye as an extended camera lens, enabling her to reveal the invisible aspects of reality. In 2023, she expanded her artistic repertoire by embracing surrealism (chance operation) through techniques like text automatism and AI-assisted image generation.This evolution in her practice has led to transformations that reflect her unique vision and style. By harnessing the capabilities of AI, her digital paintings integrate individual digital brush strokes, blending imperfections with refinement to create visual narratives inviting viewers to reflect on existence and appreciate the beauty in the relationship between form and formlessness, creating a shared tapestry of human experiences and understanding. "
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2015-2025
Discovering new shapes and forms in Photoshop based on manipulation of formless photo pixel content, a blurred outdoors; a non-compliant process by movement also via filters, an idea that popped up in my head like a light bulb not knowing anything about AI.I call them Ex Nihilo or also Kniff Art.I found that transforming some further with ai picture generator leads to some interesting surprises. Especially in the beginning phase of generating pieces with AI seeing was as if shooting with a camera motor drive; the association was immediate from one picture to the next (2023-2025) until slowing down again.I create out of being not knowledge based.
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Wise Art Geneva
Computer Arts Society CAS London
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2007 -2020
Henry Boxer Gallery London
visionary artists
Zoom International Magazine
Publication
Brighton & Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Photo
Library Arcangel 'Book Cover Art' scouting own models outdoors with
focus on crime related themes by own art direction with focus on the
collective.After I left the library I took the self financed material
further into the final photo-editing as a free body of work and develop a
feel for it, master the pixel and myself under changing circumstances. Print Design / Photoshop since 2000
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Strong background in photography, darkroom
and printing.Experiences in assisting photographers and
working on film sets
Advertisement Agency in-house photographer,
ski wear and BMW (testing new territories) study in a private analogue photo school,diploma
/ in those early years inspired by Anti Art movements of early Dada
and Surrealism, film, photography and music;study of the outdoors available light; black and white lab work,the darkroom and was the foundation for the 'lightroom' later at screen and creating out of myself rather than being influenced by.Because of a major interruption caused by a Kundalini awakening in 1990 I dropped photography until I came to London and picked up a digital camera yet at first without any professional interest; often the professional approach destroys curiosity and enjoyment of creativity, so taking time and finding ones own digital thing is better; often I feel that academic artists are missing something.
A sudden Kundalini (the formlessness, the light within) rise at 30, a rebirth, renaissance and individuation, end of past (violence) rising above my self. In early years I was a student of and influenced by my father, a film director, screen-writer, an alchemist of his time,actor and rebel.Despite the pitfalls of the parents they 'managed' to raise awareness.
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