From "Bean soap seed, sprout into the sky" series

Ceramic soap pyramids are always about the countdown, an analog soap clock. A person always strives to count, count down time, intuitively feeling its extremity. Starting with a sundial, then an hourglass, man over the millennia came to a clock of almost cosmic precision. A second, a minute, an hour. The futility of trying to curb time can be seen in the "soap clock" — we count down the time with soaps, on average, a person uses 317 soap bars in a lifetime. This is how pyramids turn into clocks, in which the proportions of time are slippery and elusive. They remind us that we must appreciate the present and keep an eye on balance.
Semyon Motolyanets