SUPPLEMENT is a series of seven single folded broadsides by John Dowd. Each collages a set of images that address a chosen topic: SUMMERTIME, PERFORMANCE, WRIST WATCH, EARTH, SUN, SOLO, and SPECIAL. Sourced from a variety of media, they are reassembled to build new narratives.
The outside covers of PERFORMANCE SUPPLEMENT feature some of the cartoon characters from the original Fantasia movie (Disney, 1940), including the elephants, the female birds, and the sorcerer Mickey. Each character is caught in a still from the movie in which they are giving exaggerated performances; there are gaping eyes and mouths, craned necks, and hands in mid spell-cast. These performative poses continue inside with photographs of a dancer, a magician, and a man dramatically smoking a cigar in an ad.