"In and of itself, paint is paint. Photography and collage are no longer anything new. 
And, since we already know that art is not about the tools used to make it, we might ask, so what's new about digital art?
For well over two hundred years the world of fine art and its counterpart in academia have been driven by the notion of stylistic identification and innovation thus creating the age of "isms". Art work has come to be judged either by how well it fits into an existing style, or is favored most when it breaks beyond these barriers and delivers something all together and strikingly new.
For digital art to join in this time honored game, to become present in the world of Fine Arts, it must move beyond mimicry of traditional media and forge new visual ground." 

JD Jarvis wrote this in an article about 15 years ago and it's actuality is out of doubt!

Let me show you today a piece that I like very much because in my opinion it is on it's way to this visual ground my friend JD was writing about.
 
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***"Back from the Abyss"***
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THE BETTER YOU LOOK THE MORE YOU SEE
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