This work featured in Owen’s final year exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art and was awarded the Gallery’s John Watson Prize (named after the school building which now houses the Gallery of Modern Art One). It was subsequently purchased for the Gallery of Modern Art’s collection. Owen has made several variants of this work, some painted directly onto the wall. The hands were traced from a pornographic magazine, and Owen has commented: ‘They’re specifically male hands and I wanted to arrange them in a way which might perhaps resemble a kind of sign language; so they might read like a text.’