Marian Bantjes creates a complex, fascinating and often humourous centrespread image for each issue of Varoom, often forming three dimensional works which she photographs prior to publication. For issue 25 she has continued to expand her impressive approach to typography and illustration, making an embroidery on this Varoom issue’s theme of Empathy, called Lost Child.

The embroidery took her two weeks to complete, and the Lost Child piece has many resonances, not least because the material Marian has used is My Little Pony hair.

More of her process photos are below.