Faculty of Design

Graphic Design

Jon Owen

A Vision of One's Self on the Bathroom Wall

An exploration of interiority in an interior time, A Vision uses cast offs from cleansing rituals to explore identity, gender, and how to find a place for loss in a world of loss. A series work of 40 photographs over the past year, with video, graphic, and textual elements, A Vision offers an opportunity for introspection and reflection. Documenting lost hair, viewers are invited consider what forms they see in the shapes of water and hair and to ask how they might find themselves in their own cast offs.

“The second phase of Age of Loss, A Vision acts as the point of transference from alienation in virtual space, to being able to embrace its absurdity and inevitability through personal introspection and situation. By learning to see one's self through what is otherwise lost, in this instance cast off hair on the shower all, loss can be used as an engine of self discovery. After taking opportunities afforded by isolation and examining the self, you can better face the increasing virtualization of our lives, a theme explored in the next phase, New Terrain.”