The Dakhmeh, or Tower of Silence, is a sacred construction for the Zoroastrian traditional funerary practice of excarnation. The dead body should not come in contact with the earth, water or air, but should be consumed by time, sun and carrion birds. Zoroastrians believe that the demonic spirits inhabiting the dead body should not touch the sacred elements of Earth and Fire. The soul’s cosmic transition is allowed by the volture mystic eye and the feeding of the body is the final act of devotion.
The drawings and texts written around the Dakhma were part of the exhibition Architecture of Multispecies Cohabitation.