"Dlela Lombard – self-taught,intuitive digital photo artist and tao alchemist discovering and evolving generative photo-art and digital painting since 2000. With a scientific approach to her craft as non conformist photo editing in photoshop without AI and before awareness of this tool she transforms formless photo pixels (the green environmental) into imaginative new forms, in which color and form have their own soul and creating is as if to a blank canvas. Rooted in her background of black and white analogue photography, Lombard always sensed the camera lens as an extension of the spiritual eye, allowing her to make the invisible visible.In 2023, she further embraced surrealism through text automatism and AI picture generation, leading to new transformation that reflect her vision and style; especially with AI, digital paintings have their own brush strokes to create the form and the pictorial style which I am always refining; I created digitally while I was suffering under noise pollution and since I was in London in 1997 I began using Ohropax to protect myself, remain connected to nature and 'in a flow state' for many years transformed noise pollution into digital art."
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Especially in the beginning phase of generating pieces with AI seeing was as if shooting with a camera motor drive; the association was immediate because of its fastness from one picture to the next; because of photo-editing my own works without AI as a self chosen dis-cipline in a non conformist way, for at least 2 decades it was gradually evolving and after some months on a daily basis realized it as a new tool.Aligning with chance operation is surrealism .The speed can be a challenge yet disrupting is the way as not to dull ones senses.
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CAS Computer Art Society 2023
and Wise Art blockchain, selected works
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2015-2021
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 before I heard of AI.I call them Ex Nihilo or also Kniff Art.I can now also take those meanwhile well edited imaginative forms (generativephotoart) further into AI generating new pieces,creative recycling.
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2007-2015
Photo Library Arcangel 'Book Cover Art'
scouting own models outdoors with focus on crime related themes by own art direction.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 and master the pixel.
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Print Design / Photoshop since 2000
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2007 -2020
Henry Boxer Gallery London
deepening the already intuitive visionary abilities,
hand eye connection,an important time although
tech and art was not the domain of outsider art.
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Zoom International Magazine
Publication
Brighton & Hove Museum and Art Gallery
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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 (as a non commercial photographer) study in a private analogue
photo school,diploma
/ inspired by Anti Art movements of early Dada
and Surrealism, film photography and music; I had no vocational
training as a specific profession because of a hard knocks childhood and thus continued with various other jobs while always following
my self taught goals as an artist refining and redefining my skills and vision.
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A sudden Kundalini (life force energy) rise at 30 initiating ,a rebirth, a regeneration, the end of the past ,transcendence and renaissance,individuation (enlightenment is making the darkness conscious). In early years I was a student of and influenced by my father who was a film director and screenwriter, an alchemist of his time, an actor and rebel who learned in the US. Despite the pitfalls in the family my parents 'managed' to raise awareness.