Accession Code: WU1115 Title: Towers of Silence Date completed: 2001 Classification: Painting Medium: Oil on canvas Height (mm): Width (mm): Depth (mm): Inscription: Location Name: University House Location Description: Visitors Entrance Location Floor: 0

© Estate of Partou Zia

Gift from Richard Cook

In this painting Partou recalls her Iranian heritage and her sense of disruption and loss. The Towers of Silence, a site for bodies leaving the earth, is a powerful image made all the more intense by the two figures clasped together.