Subverting the object universally known for sounding prayer, its function becomes obsolete in hopes that the silence becomes the sound - speaking to the duality in expression of prayers and action in silence, not as the destination but as a temporary resting place where we can seek to hold space quietly.
Placed in the entrance of the central chapel inviting visitors to ring when entering.
From the annual 72 second silence for the Grenfell Tower killing to call for remembrance and justice for those lives taken by systemic failures of the British Government and Arconic; who knowingly supplied flammable cladding to the building. To the silent protest in Jerusalem in 1929 - a demonstration organised by Palestinian women to protest the British High Commissioner’s bias against Arabs during the Buraq Uprising - Silence as quiet forms of dissent can signify unity, solidarity and sitting with what is.
However silence can be a way to deflect, to ignore - witnessing without sound can willinging deafen us to the horrors around us. When we don’t speak up, when words can’t describe the horror anymore, when the world becomes too loud. When we deeply listen, what can we hear in silence? How can we quieten enough to stay with the trouble?

The bell is adorned with Mukala and Jala mudras for doves and pushing water aside symbolising the encouragement of what’s inside to pour or fly out.