Using edited images from our photoshoot, Bethany created a single embroidery job that combines all of these photos. Here we are using images of different colours to create an image that represents the pride flag.
To try and do this, Bethany 1st sorted these photos into a variety of formats and orders, finding the arrangement worked the best. After choosing a composition, she proceeds to embroider in pictures which form her own patterns and styles on each picture, for example by crossing out negative words in the Bible passages shown and creating dotted lines on the word board and in the middle. . Additionally, Bethany also did this by harnessing colour-matched filaments to the colours in each image, enhancing the colours depicting the LGBTQ flag when some of the colours light up slightly as a result of writing the images onto more paper. thick. , allowing embroidery without tearing. In addition, she also uses black for paints in their original colour. She then sewed the images onto a piece of size A2 fabric, which served as the backdrop for the collage. besides for that, she also pasted some photos on the document, so that there is no need for tinkering on the image that the photos can overlay. With all the photos in place, Bethany ensured that all the items lay flat and then framed them in a very sturdy window holder, so that the item’s slightly worn edges were not visible, and then the image has a stable background.
This is our final image for our identity and community project, highlighting both religious and LGBTQ communities, combining them by presenting their differences and how they are still there to be able to get along with each other despite this.