Henrique Alvim Corrêa – War of the Worlds: Man Scaling Alien Terrain, 1906

A desperate, ragged figure clings to a rubble-strewn slope, hauling himself upward with wild eyes fixed on something beyond the frame — survivor or prey, it is impossible to say. Behind him, a massive vertical wall of alien or engineered stone looms with inscribed markings, while an eerie luminous glow bleeds in from the right, silhouetting skeletal vegetation. This is Henrique Alvim Corrêa at his most visceral — humanity diminished and terrorized against the vast, indifferent machinery of Martian conquest.