Further development of artefact

This is where I left of last time: 1. write the song and then elaborate it in my statement. 2. experiment more with the magnetic ink (3. kill my ink-darling and make an artefact I can actually move by my song? Cause I probably won't be able to combine the magnetic ink and 'movement by sound'..)

1. I decided to skip the song. I would like to work with music but I think it is best to keep it a bit more simple and just try to say one thing: that I like being only partly the author of a work. This I decided when working on my statement. I shouldn't try to say everything I want to say in one thing. Now I am focussing on making an artefact that I create in 3 steps: 1. draw something with the magnetic ink 2. let the material work, so let it bleed into the water/oil 3. bring it to life. as a 'surprise' i would let the work 'finish itself' by influencing the ink from underneath the glass plate, which looks like the ink is moving just by itself.

2. the achieve this I had to experiment more with the magnetic ink. I gathered some more toner and tried to find a balance in having enough oil so it would bleed enough into the oil on the plate, and having enough toner in it to make it as magnetic as possible. This turned out to be pretty hard. The ink kept responding only very weakly to the magnet. Too weak to actually 'draw with it. So I tried using a different soil: I needed something that was thinner than my glass plate. I tried paper, plastic, cardboard. I still didn't work well enough. Then I tried to change my approach: what if i would draw something first, poor oil or water over it and then influence it with the magnet? It would give me a more figurative image to start with, but the ink would stick too well to the soil and not be very influenceable anymore.