Civic Bell and Forms at Diyarbakir Hall

Cool, wet light reflects off the pavement visible through an open doorway, washing the interior of a Diyarbakir community center hall in gray-blue tones. Rain streaks the high windows while a brass town clerk bell rests on a scarred wooden desk. Thick stacks of duplicate forms sit beside the bell in neat white columns, their paper edges curling slightly from the damp air. The wooden grain of the desk runs parallel to the crisp edges of the paper. Shadows stretch long across the floorboards as evening settles in. A drop of rain rests on the brass rim of the bell.