Homo graphix :

The species to which you and all other living human beings on this planet belong is Homo sapiens . Both, Plato and Aristotle saw, in mimesis , in imitation, the representation of Nature. Imitation is natural to humans from childhood: this is how children learn , and we all learn from imitations. Recognition is involved, therefore, in this imitation. What one recognizes in the play of art is not technique, which is only of secondary interest; our attention is directed towards "how true it is and to what extent one knows and recognizes it and oneself”. But this recognition is no mere certification of previous knowledge. Rather, "more becomes known than is already known". As such, recognition involves new knowledge, gained through the illuminating agency of art. Art transforms the Homo sapiens into Homo graphix .