+100?

+100? Digital collage, 2025 – Honys Torres

+100? depicts Stephen Hawking seated on the lap of Queen Victoria’s statue at the University of Cambridge, a scene taken from the biopic The Theory of Everything. The gesture—tender yet provocative—becomes a symbol of a scientific monarchy observing collapse from its pedestal.

The piece evokes Hawking’s warnings about humanity’s future: the dangers of unchecked artificial intelligence, global warming as an existential threat, the need to leave Earth to survive as a species, and the risk that technology may outpace our ability to control it. In the image, a winged brain labeled IA, a meteor, a green virus, and a microwave marked CALENTAMIENTO GLOBAL orbit the central figure like visual omens.

The question +100? doesn’t celebrate longevity—it challenges us: How many years do we have left? What kind of humanity are we building? What part of what was mortal still belongs to us?

+100? is a pop elegy, a warning wrapped in color, humor, and science fiction. A piece that transforms Hawking’s memory into a visual oracle.