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Our Cross to Bear- Zine

Our Cross to Bear is a zine that explores the eff ects of manipulative religious communities. The zine contains an interview with a family about their negative experience with the church. I took each family members experience and isolated them into separate embroidered symbols unifi ed by the cross. When creating the embroidery for the zine, I chose to outline the shape of the cross in backstitch and left the symbols to appear more simplifi ed. The cross uses only simple stitches like backstitch, long and short stitch, running stitch and satin stitch. The simple stitches along with the simple repetitive use of colour unify them as a family.