Badges / by Alyson Khan

The shapes in this mirrored piece remind me of badges like you would see on a military uniform. They made me think of how we have all earned our stripes in different ways. Whatever things we have experience, weathered, or worked hard for have transformed us on various levels—from the physical to the mental to the spiritual. A piece from the Mirror-Mirror series, this idea also extends to sobriety—another area in which you will be tested and where you really gotta earn it by working on the self.