Artist Statement

My name is Florin Dragoi, I was born in 1985 and currently live in Timisoara, Romania. I am a visual artist specializing in figurative pencil drawings on paper. My works depict highly detailed characters, often wearing masks and placed in natural environments, blending magical realism with archetypal symbolism.

All of my final works are created exclusively with graphite or colored pencils on paper, representing the final expression of the artistic idea. In the research and sketching phases, I use digital diffusion models and digital collages as tools for visual exploration. This allows me to merge traditional drawing techniques with contemporary visual technologies, creating a personal aesthetic where digital innovation becomes part of the artistic process.

My practice investigates the identities and tribes of a future humanity, imagined through a dual perspective: on one hand, through the lens of technological evolution, transhumanism, and spiritual development; on the other, through a reconnection to our archaic and instinctive nature, illustrated by mythology, symbolism, magic, folklore, paganism, and ancestral mysticism. The intersection of these two dimensions generates a fertile narrative space for artistic exploration, where the archaic past and the imagined future poetically overlap.

The characters I create inhabit a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity has reorganized into tribes that coexist in harmony with nature. The masks they wear serve not only as protection but also as symbols of identity, caste, and spiritual role.

In this world, people have reached an advanced level of both technological and spiritual evolution. Subtle dimensions have become perceptible, and magic and technology have merged into a single, indistinguishable language, intuitive and transcendent. These beings have the ability to control energy and the elements, to communicate with other realms, and to live in alignment with the unseen rhythms of nature.

Their customs, clothing, and rituals echo ancient traditions, reinterpreted and reshaped into a mythology of the future, where the sacred and the scientific coexist in profound harmony.