Rooted in spontaneity, Cecil Lee refers to his work as Computer Evolved Digital Composition or, more broadly, Digital Compositions or Computer Evolved Art. This terminology deliberately pays homage to the human artist and creator, by insinuation rather than the machine as a creative source. This reinforces his belief that within art, "there is no foreal, there is only what we make." By viewing the artist as the architect, his work has evolved through numerous generations, some tracing back over twenty-five years, while others have only recently reached completion.
 

Each composition is assembled from layered photographic and digital elements, textures, and symbolic references to form an image that does not exist in reality before its creation. Drawing from the visionary tradition of Afro Futurism, his objective is to work with the insight of historical art movements, merging their essence with digital technology. It must be implicit that the human creates, not the machine. He disagrees with terms like "Computer Art," "Electronic Art," or any "Generated Art," as they imply that creativity belongs to the software. These labels often act as a form of prejudgment, fueled by industry bias, finance, and a misunderstanding of the artist's role as the architect of the work. Computer Evolved Art is a unique form where tradition and technology intersect with the rhythms of insight within a changing world — a sensibility that resonates deeply with the speculative, identity-rooted spirit of Afro Futurism.
 

In addition to visual art, Cecil extends his explorations into writing. His recent coffee-table book, Obsession with Change: A Look at the Future from the Beginning, combines more than seventy cinematic images with short stories and fictional archives. Similar, but unique to his main body of work, it aims to create experiences that feel both tactile and virtual, forming spaces where AI, identity, memory, and imagined futures converge — a vision steeped in the Afro Futurist tradition of reimagining what has been and what is yet to come. Here http://cecillee.com/owc