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owenstudio.co.uk is the online platform for the personal work and self-initiated projects produced by designers Paul + Kayla Owen.



// The duo have spent over twenty years in Art, Fashion and the Creative industries in a variety of roles from Designers, Brand Guardians to Creative Directors working with many global brands, including Benetton, Gieves & Hawkes, Hackett, Harvey Nichols, John Smedley, Timberland, Selfridges and Stella McCartney. Today they continue to design, but also consult and collaborate with many industry and academic partners, providing design solutions, research and publishing outputs around the themes of experimental art, fashion, identity and place.
Milestone [it’s still personal]
Media: Print  
Location: Liverpool
Year: 2019


About the work:
Milestone [it’s still personal] is an ongoing project visualising the journal kept duringmy chemotherapy journey.

Conceptualising the idea of how a body fighting cancer is dependent on a partnership between scientific and technological processes is personified in this artwork.

The artistic and narrative intentions of the use of ‘light’ was of significant importance in representing the trauma of chemotherapy treatment. Experimental image making was used to evoke the chemical energies happening within the body. The intervention of vigorous drugs traveling through microscopic structures of veins and cells: fluidity and light. Representing the power and control of medicine and the dichotomy between conscious and subconscious.

This visual series illustrates the light and shade moments of cancer treatment and importantly demonstrate that the reaction and control of disease in abstract forms can turn the ugly into the beautiful.