The Black Pyramid

- Black pool

"The main feature of this room is the square pool of water in the centre. This measures twenty feet along each side and is surrounded by a ten foot wide floor. All around the walls are hooks with long white towels hanging from them, and you can only suppose this is some form of bathing or cleansing room. Perhaps it has some significance in the religion of those who come here.

The water is still and dark from the usual black stone blocks with which the sides of the pool and the floor and ceiling of the room have been constructed. Only the walls of the room have been painted white."

Pen & ink on cartridge paper
14cmx22cm.

Water spouts from the mouth of a carved hippopotanus into a black pool

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