pole.

Okay. I’ve done another setup next to the first one, using the cylindrical magnet this time (the one with 9.9 kg pull strength, 8 mm x 25 mm). It works with only 1 magnet, so that’s the strength that I need. Interestingly I guess the poles in this one is different than the block one I use in my first setup. This new setup is stable only when it points to a direction perpendicular to the first setup.

The optimum distance between the setups is about 18 cm – closer than that and the whole system would collapse with the magnets pulling (or rather, snapping) to each other – and the razor blades losing their pull, lamely falling to the ground.

I also pulled a thread within the gap. Works well with the second setup because it is perpendicular to the surfaces where I could stick the ends of the thread on.

The colour of the threads I’m using is important as well. I do want these threads to be utterly visible, and so their colour would have to be contrasting to the background.

As I was working on it a colleague passed by and asked me what I was doing. She then commented that my works have a “sharp edge to it.” – “Fascinating!” – And then she asked for permission to try putting a metal object close to the setup because she was curious to see what would happen. I said yes, and she slowly put a buckle of her bag forward, and finally – *snap*! We laughed and she asked me to imagine if someone with a nose-ring would get too close to the setup …

Ah. Such are the children in all of us.

I’m hungry and tired.