“A desert almost as large as all of Europe: Sahara, a word that in means “empty”.

Four thousand years ago, however, all the territory that is now occupied by the Sahara desert was a savannah populated by big animals.

Sculpture performed with clay, iron, laminated leaves, raw cloth bandages, concrete, sprays and acrylics and inspired to the realm of middle-east ecosystem and the historical traces of the city of al-Fayyum located within the oasis of the same name about 30 km west of the Nile.

The oasis with a surface area of ​​1270 km² is the largest of the western desert oases and is irrigated with water coming from the Nile via a canal Bahr Yussef, which flows in a depression located to the west of the Nile valley.

In the city there are bazaars, mosques, baths and an important weekly market is held there.

The city is still a titular seat of the Catholic Church as a residue of its nomination as an episcopal seat dating back to the time of the last Roman domination of the territory.

Ancient Egyptians believed they often sighted Sobek, the crocodile near the swamps and on the banks of rivers.

Precisely for this reason, he was greatly venerated in the swampy oasis of Fayum, in Lower Egypt.

There, his cult had a remarkable development during the entire Middle Kingdom, and numerous rulers brought a name compounded with that of the god.