Talk With Pete

I spoke to Pete about my idea to get professionally printed banners to hang as a shout of gay pride aimed at the rest of the world and he again reminded me of the ever important presence of connotations. We discussed that a professionally printed banner might imply there is money behind it, that it's a company perhaps. Whereas if I were to go with my original idea of painting on bed sheets then it would be much more as Pete put it "raw and in the grass", in other words I feel it would be more personal were it hand painted. This would make it seem as though an average person painted it for average people to see, quite unlike the idea of a company getting a banner printed. Pete said that the idea of painting on bed sheets reminded him of the birthday messages mothers often hung on roundabouts for their children. Thinking about the idea of that, it is a very warm and kind thing to do for someone, it displays a show of pride in their child and also a certain close feeling. I want to play on these raw feelings of familial pride and create my own community pride, LGBT community pride.