De Mono a Hombre or From Ape to Man presents a pivotal early work in which the artist brings together his first self-portrait—created at sixteen—and the figure of his grandfather. Both are rendered as hyperrealistic masks at twice life-size, isolated yet in dialogue, suspended between presence and absence.

The piece unfolds as an introspective reflection on identity and inheritance. The artist recognizes himself in his grandfather, suggesting a cyclical rather than linear idea of evolution—where past and future mirror one another.

As the first work in which both figures appear together, it establishes a deeply personal motif that continues throughout his practice: a meditation on lineage, resemblance, and the construction of the self.