My object is a blue ceramic bell with a crystal clapper on a metal chain. The bell is an object used to produce a sound, often the attention of another. It’s technically a percussion instrument.
A bell can represent many things in my opinion. One of the first associations that comes to my mind is church bells ringing, they usually ring at the hour, which is why I associate the bell with time and order.
Bells also commonly represent the beginning or an end, for example the bell between classes.
Bells also symbolize: a call to order, warning (fires), call to battle, schedule, call to worship.
I’m interested in multiple of the bell’s identities, the idea of somehow representing the bells symbolization of the beginning and end simultaneously could be interesting. I was thinking of somehow using the multiple casts to somehow denote a beginning and end. I think its representation of the beginning and end at the same seems full circle. I was thinking of somehow using a circle to represent this idea.