Jason Mervyn Hibbs

Swinesworth and Ursington

Acrylic painted parody of a Barnum and Bailey Circus Poster

It’s 4:38am as I write, and this is all I have to show for it. The latest brief from Cambridge School of Art was to devise a poster for an imagined sideshow using the pre-existing visual grammar of classic circus posters. My idea comes from the patronisation of animals in the circus, and with a bit of role-reversal, you get something like this: a bear, whipping a man, cowering.

It made me laugh.

Thirty minutes ago, Connie barged her way in to my residence to retrieve some peardrops she put in my bag. How rude. But I played her and visiting friend, Bridget, a tune for their trek and troubles.

Anyway, this poster will be finished tomorrow.