Magnets have been used to display art for as long as households have had refrigerators, but now Fabian Oefner is using them to create it. He discovered that by placing the viscous, magnetic liquid known as ferrofluid under a magnetic field and mixing it with water colors, iron particles rearrange, creating dark channels that separate the watercolors from the ferrous liquid. The result is gorgeous, thumbnail sized images that resemble planets or brains and Oefner has captured them just beautifully in his Millefiori collection. The images are so trippy that they could replace the eggs in the classic 80′s “This is your Brain on Drugs” PSA. [Read more...]