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JONATHAN OWEN

Who cares if Jonathan Owen’s ideas are unfathomable when his art is such a wonder to

behold? This is the artist who took a World War II gas mask and cut intricate patte ns into

r its rubber casing, rendering it beautiful and at the same time useless. Now, he’s taken a scalpel to another icon of security - the burglar alarm. But once Owen has carved it into William Morris patterns, is the alarm any more pointless than before? After all, it was probably a take in the first place.

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