Magnetic Art Sculpture .//

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ACHIKO KODAMA .// Magnetic Art Sculpture .// currenly on display at the Samuel Freeman
Gallery at the Bergamot Station, in Santa Monica,

In 2000, Sachiko began work on a ferrofluid art project that she named "Protrude, Flow".Ferrofluid is a very interesting material originally developed by NASA it has now found itself been used for a whole range of devices including dampers for controlling and stabilizing large building that move around in the wind. Whats also amazing is that they have such lovely visual qualities when magnetized. The term liquid architecture is used a lot in interactive architecture based on the ideas of how architecture becomes animated by adding the 4th Dimension of Time. Sachiko has taken this idea of liquid architecture more literally with these stunning sculptures made from Ferrofluid which changes its state by the introduction of electro-magnetic waves into the fluid turning it solid. As you stand around and watch this piece, you get literally mesmerized as the ferrofluid (guided by magnets) follows its track and changes its forms.