Illegible Body

Melt // Thaw // Resolve

the materials used to develop this body of work include plaster of paris, fine casting plaster, herculite, crystacast, jesmonite, hemp rope, clear soap, pink oil stick, graphite powder, second-hand cassette tapes and cassette tape cases, hand pulled cotton paper, screenprinted j-cards, distorted found analogue audio of a production of Hamlet, sampled home recordings of teenage singing lessons, a broken e-reader, and manually damaged cassette tapes

This work could not exist without the help of many lovely people, and Owen would like to thank everyone who lent their time, advice, and expertise over this last year: Adrienne Murray, Alys Owen, Amara Karapas, Amy Grogan, Andy Burke, Aoife McGarrigle, Brian McIntyre, Catriona Anderson, Chris Roberts, Connor McLennaghan, Cora Farr, Doug Kennedy, Fee Cuimeanach, Honor Gornell, Jane Topping, Karena Hansen, Lily Krempel, Lindsey McAuley, Michelle Hannah, Miriam Ann Foy, Rebecca Rae, Ruby Cedar, Sarah MacSporran, Sofya Mikhaylova, Steph Liddle, Teo Pieczka, The GSA Green Society, and Zhijun Liu. Special thanks to Clare Speir and Robert Speir for their support <3