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.
SUN SUPPLEMENT’s cover shows a young boy happily playing guitar in a living room with floral wallpaper. Inside are a series of equally sunny scenes–a vintage photograph of a Walgreen’s drugstore in New York City, close-up snaps of oranges growing on trees, a couple with an infant mediating in a park, and a group of people playing instruments as they dance around a table of food. It closes with a drawing of an Indian god rubbing fruit on the forehead of a cow.