From the Artist: "Painted two weeks after the attacks on the Trade Centre Buildings, Towers aims to portray a sense of loss. In physical terms, the towers are echoes in the dusty sky, piles of rubble whose destruction resonates across the horizon. After the devastation it was clear that the loss extended far beyond physicality. I combined the sense of defeat felt on that day, with the realisation of vulnerability, and fear associated with sudden weakness. This is the flag at the towers' base, withered, scarred, a part of America's consciousness effectively and recently dead. That curled up flag is charactered also to acknowledge the people lost, symbolic access to the horror of that day. Visually the Towers also provide the number 11, while the flag is the number 9."