The artist Kirill Krokhalyo became acquainted with the art of sculpture at an early age, as his sculptor father instilled in him a love of art, and the familyencouraged him to study sculpture, which continued for ten years in the city of Minsk, before he joined the sculpture department at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Despite his interruption from practicing sculpture for a period of eightyears, he returned strongly, driven by a desire to realize his artistic ideas, and began participating in many symposiums around the world, through which he transformed ideas and dreams into complete artistic works.

His visit to Aswan comes as a new station in which he presents a work through which he expresses an aspiration toward completeness. The vertical form of his sculpture imitates the Pharaonic obelisk, and moves toward a circle that symbolizes, from his point of view, the sun, an icon of perfection. The central point of this circle represents the final and fixed goal toward which all paths converge. However, the journey toward this goal is not straight; rather, it takes a winding path with sharp levels and angles, reflecting a symbolic image of the difficult ascent of the human being through tests, choices, and stages of different experiences.

He says that during his practice of sculpture, he is not concerned only with creating aesthetic forms, but rather undergoes a deep process of self-discovery, and every surface or curve is a translation of a personal inner dialogue that hetransfers into a tangible material space. For him, the final work is not merely an artistic piece, but a material witness to a stage of a continuous journey toward understanding the self.

Krokhalyo reveals that his work initially carried a differenttitle, buta deeper immersion in the vocabulary of Egyptian history and culture revealed to him many aspects that intersect with his artistic practice and his way of thinking. Therefore, he decided to give the work the title "To Aten," the sun disk that symbolizes absolute unity and the source of life.