The impact of Mardi Gras Beads

beads have been passed around the classroom. i see that people engage the beads in different ways. Some hold them, some actually wear them. What do people think when they physically touch these beads? Is it of what they are made of, or is it why they were made?

Shiny spheres held together by string. Circular in simplest form. When acted upon the interactions of the individual beads becomes more complicated. Overlaps begin to form but the original unbroken connection can be traced if one focuses long enough. But upon casual glance, the simplistic nature of their connectivity is easily lost. Lost in the complex forms that are taken. These complex forms arise due to external forces and they continue to exist due to external forces. Once acted upon by an individual, the beads are then left for gravity to preserve what has been created. But there is an intrinsic ability to preserve shape in the nature of the connection of the beads, for if the string was not present the spheres would roll away to exist individually. The structure of the table provides the canvas for the beads to exist together. Gravity held the connection of the two strands in between the table, while the support of the table allowed the connection to exist in the air.