Homo Augmentus (2022) Original Pastel Drawing by Dan Laurentiu Arcus

The “new human” is no longer imagined simply as a better version of Homo sapiens, but as something approaching the attributes once reserved for gods.

We are expected to overcome biological limits, expand intelligence, reshape identity, master technology and adapt continuously to a society moving faster than the individual can follow.

Between flesh, machine, gender, knowledge and ambition, the human being starts to become a project—an attempt to exceed itself.

The question is not only what we are becoming, but how much of being human can remain once transcendence becomes an expectation.

Materials used:

pastel, charcoal and paper

Details:

• Pastel drawing on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 90 x 110 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 90 x 110cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: People and portraits