maya + rouvelle: Electro-Magnet Print Process w/ Lili Maya

This is documentation of our electro-magnet/neodymium ball magnet setup that we use in our sound performances re-cast as a mark making element for a print project at the Pilchuck print studio.

We set the magnets up on an inked plate and let them roll until they were covered in ink and had left marks on the plate. We then made a print with that plate, and then placed the electro-magnet setup on the print’s surface, in the same configuration, and let the neodymium magnets deposit the ink they had previously gathered.

The magnetic field oscillates in response to changes in EMF.

The prints we made will be exhibited in Seattle during November.