To Wolfgang Laib, art is a form of transcendent spiritual healing and sustenance. Natural materials are important to the artist, who works with beeswax, milk, pollen, and rice, creating simple forms that strive to communicate at a universal level, transcending language.

Wolfgang Laib started to work with beeswax in 1987 and made a first wax room in 1988 for the exhibition Zeitlos at the Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, curated by Harald Szeemann. After Laib stopped to use the material for several years he turned back to it in 2015. In this year he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale and made a small series of beeswax works including this one.

The Step Pyramid made of fragrant, golden- yellow beeswax has a sensuous and very com- pelling presence. The concentration and purity of the natural material gives the sculpture a serene beauty and a certain sacrosanctity.

The work can be installed on a plinth or on a shelf.