A project by Joachim Eckl

3rd of March 2009
Faiyum/Egypt

In joint efforts of over 40 people, 25.000 litres of Nile water have been transformed into the shape of a pyramid made of ice. This monument refers to time and the sun. It was built in the tradition of the first stone made building – the pyramid of Sakkara (2700 BC). This ice-made body of memory is melting, liquefying and remembering “frozen knowledge”. The pyramid construction is a mythology based educational project of a people which creates skills as well as consciousness.

The ice-pyramid was erected in the Egyptian desert near Bahr Yussef, the waterway of Joseph. This waterway is a canal which connected the Nile with the oasis of Faiyum 130 kilometres southwest of Cairo.