Magnetical Drawing

My theme was this month magnetical drawing. I had bought some of those drawing boards for children, which can wipe out every drawing anew. The drawing possibilities are not very good, but the theme seemed interesting to me.
I made some simple forms, playing with the hexagons, triangles and a cricle. You can see how the powder is shifted to one side, so we are not able to "fill" a black shape. If you stay on the geometry of the hexagon, it is acceptable, but....

When I was in Bremen i gave Tilman one of these boards as a present and i thought he would be tempted to make drawings on it. (He is very capable of drawing under the most difficult circumstances if he wants to...) Well, he didn't seemed to be amused. So the theme was extended a little bit, just magnetical drawings, not drawing on this magnetical board.
Although the theme was made more general, I quickly realized that this theme was not at all easy! The board is terrible, but also the "magnetic - magnetical" is not at all something that would have been interesting to ...Ingres, Picasso, Michelangelo. Why not? It is not really emotional. It is rather scientific.
Of course magnetical and attraction seems to be related and attraction is really human, but on the other hand the magnet is not attractive at all......
To come closer to an emotion, I tried to imagine from the inside how the powder would feel, first being in a square....


The drawing board is called magnetic because it uses a magnet to draw on iron (?) powder caught in between the cells of a wire of hexagones. The fact that the wiring is not on suares is really amazing!
(There is a clean state, where does the powder come from when drawing?)
So, then i would imagine myself being powder in the hexagones:


Ok and i noticed, strange enough, that indeed, not much drawing is possible on this board, mine was especially not working too well. And besides, the hexagones and the powder was not too well distributed. See the experiments on top.
So in the end i made most of my drawings on paper. Imagining what it would be like to live inside such a cell.



Then i searched on the internet and found out that they even sell board with three colors!
Because of the color seperation i was able to make a good drawing on one of these boards...
It seems to me that the theme is worthwhile exploring further. I have the feeling that i must just find that switch....it could be very revealing....saving humanity (to start with) ....maybe the universe.....maybe more.....:-)