This Pyramid Is Potentially Any Human Being’s Grave
Let’s face it: you want to be buried in a pyramid. Who doesn’t? This summer, while searching for the meaning of paradise in Costa Rica, my associate and I came upon an American woman who had built a pyramid right next to her Egyptian-themed house, perhaps precisely for this purpose. (Alert! Alert! Exclusive first-glimpse of a yet-undisclosed adventure!)
Given this inevitable fact about human nature (again, that we want to be buried in pyramids), imagine my delight when I discovered, yesterday at the Art Book Fair at PS1 in Queens, Solution 9: The Great Pyramid, a remarkable volume published last year by Sternberg Press. It is a collection of essays proposing (and remembering, from the future) the construction of a for-profit pyramid of human graves bigger than the Great Pyramid at Giza. The projected location is in eastern Germany, though there are also plans for a global network of such things, which will be a fantastic and profitable use of our dead. The sample pages on the Sternberg website are most alluring:
The creators’ ambition is vast…
…no less than their morbidity.
Why is this so wonderfully desirous?
Related: architecture, art, death
October 5th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Maybe KtB could make a few bucks by selling pre-fab, assembly required, home pyramid burial kits? You know, with our logo?
Cause nothing sez ded like the Big Red X.
(I’m proposing that as our marketing line.)
October 6th, 2009 at 10:16 am
That’s a pyramid scheme if I’ve ever seen one.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:06 am
You got the joke, I think.