God's Eye is a glimpse into the inner life of magnetic beings. In this world, magnets are free to roam. Once they were trapped in cramped clusters, left on an office desk, stuck in a drawer, confined to an inanimate existence. No longer! Here, magnets are re-imagined in proximal space, structured with attention to counter-balance and situated in a way that explores their functional interiority. God's Eye is a substrate of loosely coupled electromagnetic neighbors. Motion emerges through the complex systems dynamics of induction coils driving inner magnets which, in turn, affect neighboring magnets and their fields. Proximal inter-magnetic dynamics offer a new dimension of visual interpretation. This aggregation is bounded by a chaotic counter-balance between the forces of gravity and electromagnetism. Magnets are carefully positioned to allow them to simultaneously shape, share and influence each others complex behavior of motion without clustering together. Through attraction,repulsion and proximal distance, this dynamic process creates an emergent field of hive-like motion. 

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A variable speed sine wave (2-10hz) is sent into copper coils creating a magnetic field which invisibly moves a magnetic ball placed inside each coil.  Yet this magnetic response is constrained by force of gravity as each ball rolls in its own parabolic dish.  One magnet's motion affects the motion of another in close proximity through the field disturbance created as the relative position of north and south poles of each magnet change with respect to one another. Users alter the frequency of the signal sent into the copper coils by placing their hand in varying proximity to the work.

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 Magnets are laterally constrained by rolling within the 'gravity well', of a curved dish. Yarn 'tails', visually amplify the magnetic inertial influence that magnets have on one another over longer distances.

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