When coming up with what I wanted as my mission badge, I had a few ideas of what I wanted my mission to be. Most of them involve the act of self-care in some fashion, but they do focus on different aspects of what it means to practice self-care; and because of that, I thought that my mission would be the idea of encompassing a multitude of different things. Since I cannot decide on just one thing, why not try and embrace a few things at a steady pace?
I thought that the best way to express this was to create a mission badge that would use the language of flowers to represent the side-quests—aka, the different things that I want to represent as what I want for my future. One of my drawings that I had done was of someone whose head was surrounded by a blooming lotus. Then I had the idea to use the flowers in a flower crown, which was something that I liked better.
Now, my idea is to create a badge that takes inspiration from the artist Alphonse Mucha, a Czech artist who created art during the art nouveau movement. Of course, I don’t think I would be creating the badge with as much detail as Alphonse Mucha put in his own art pieces, but I am going to try and utilize the usage of flowers and framing to create the overall essence of the badge.
