About the work

To see is no longer simply human.

In Oculus, Di Nicolantonio places the eye at the centre of everything not as window to the soul, but as precision instrument, as interface, as the exact coordinates where biology ends and engineering begins. The composition is radical in its economy: no full face, no body, no context. Only the eye. And the machine that has claimed it.

Encased within concentric rings of precision-engineered iris segmented, bolted, calibrated the eye itself remains unmistakably, disturbingly alive. The lashes are real. The pupil holds light. But the architecture surrounding it belongs to another order entirely: a sensor array designed to process what the biological eye cannot access. Data streams. Thermal signatures. Electromagnetic fields. The invisible infrastructures of a world that has already been augmented whether we consented to it or not.

Hair dissolves into electrical lines at the periphery of the composition, the organic and the synthetic becoming indistinguishable at the edges. The mouth and nose, fragmentary in the lower right, suggest a face that is no longer fully present partially absorbed into its own augmentation, partially already elsewhere. The human is still here. But it is no longer alone inside itself.

This is the eye that sees you back. And behind it, running silently, an intelligence that is not entirely its own.

Oculus is the founding image of The Augmented series the moment artificial intelligence stops being a tool worn on the body and becomes a function of the self.

An original drawing from The Augmented series by artist-futurist Sébastien Di Nicolantonio.

Edition Unique original — one of a kind

Signature Hand-signed by the artist

Authentication Sold with certificate of authenticity and gallery invoice

Technique Original drawing — pen on paper

Dimensions 29.7 × 42 cm — A3 format

Framing Unframed — framing available upon request