OVERTURE

"𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞"

                   － 𝐁𝐨𝐛 𝐃𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐧

In 1993, Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida proposed a project to create an immense void inside Tindaya, the Sacred Mountain of Fuerteventura's indigenous inhabitants. The hollow cube measuring approximately 45 x 50 x 65 meters was conceived as a space for "all the people" to "fully experience the tininess of humankind".

The idea of the project dates back to the 1980s, and it took the artist years of searching for the ideal mountain in different parts of the world. However, what was ideal for Chillida evoked a lot of controversy due to the environmental and social impact of the project. There was uncertainty about Tindaya's structural feasibility and the potential harm to the ancient petroglyphs engraved on its surface. What's more, the financial sustainability of the project's economic model would depend on hundreds of thousands of tourists visiting the site each year, converting a work of art into a holiday attraction.

Chillida called his project the Monument to Tolerance. Although it never came into existence, it has caused division and conflict since it was conceived.

"hollow" is an exploration of 256 voids in nonexistent natural monuments. Made of digital matter instead of stone and lacking cultural charge, its sole purpose is to contemplate the tininess of humankind.

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𝗔𝘁𝗼𝗺𝘀' 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗲

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𝓅𝓍𝓁𝓈𝒽𝓇𝒹

𝓂𝓇𝓀𝓈𝓌𝒸𝓏

“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud’s blowed from or who the soul’ll be ‘morrow?”

― Cloud Atlas

𝙍𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙚𝙢: 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙

𝒥𝒾𝓃𝓎𝒶ℴ ℒ𝒾𝓃

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