Maidie Hilmo
Hollow World—A Visual Exploration of a New Subterranean Utopia
In the future, according to the prediction by 20th-century artist and former mariner Carle Hessay (1911-1978), new technologies will make it possible to counteract the ever-threatening catastrophic destruction of life on earth. In his series of futurist Hollow World paintings, made as part of a Canada Council Explorations project, Hessay imagined the creation of a second earth formed by the hollowing out of the present one…
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