the shiniest of the ornaments

While all of the standing mirrors are facing the speaker, only the cracked ones are in the back or hidden behind other ones. This could be due to the shame of being damaged, or the idea of bad luck (break a mirror and get seven years, not eight years? of bad luck) for the speaker’s future (if one is superstitious, that is, though), or because the cracked ones are regulated to the back of the crowd either by the speaker and the non-cracked mirrors and resemble the damage caused by the speaker’s words, decisions, ideas, or authority as well as by other circumstances. The different sizes, shapes, and colors of the mirrors are supposed to represent unity despite differences in appearance. Only a few of the mirrors in the front row show a varying reflection of the speaker. The speaker towers above the podium and the speech. This could represent the importance of the speaker her/himself, their presence or their deeds, which might outweigh the actual speech being given. The sky is inverted, going from dark at the bottom to light at the top. This imagery could mean dark days ahead or better ones yet to come, depending which part the speaker, as well as the viewer, is concentrating on. The inverted sky could also mean that things are topsy-turvy. The title suggests that the speaker is considered to be the shiniest, or prettiest, ornament, object or centerpiece, in a cult of personality.