Magnetic Storm

The first one. It had to be.

Magnetic Storm is the piece where it began - the artist's first vitreous enamel work, made in 2024 from pure curiosity. Different glass powder colours mixed together, wet-packed onto copper, fired in the kiln with no plan beyond wanting to see what would happen. What happened was this.

Because it was a first piece, there is no contra enamel on the reverse - that knowledge came later. Rather than hide the gap, the solution became part of the work: a rubber magnet mounted to the bare copper back, and a display stand rebuilt around it. The stand is repurposed solid pine from a previous project, finished in matte black, with magnets integrated into both the wood and the coin. The artwork snaps to the stand. The stand mounts to any magnetic surface - a fridge, a metal shelf, a wall panel. It goes where you put it.

The dual-magnet system was not designed. It was reasoned out, one problem at a time, in the true spirit of working with what the process gives you.

• Medium: vitreous enamel on copper
• Technique: wet packing, kiln-fired; no contra enamel
• Dimensions: 21 mm radius; stand — 80 × 79 mm, solid pine, matte black finish
• Mounting: dual-magnet system - artwork to stand, stand to any magnetic surface
• Year: 2024
• Edition: unique - one of a kind
• Series: First Fires — Experimental Enamel
• Artist: A. Fraction, Vilnius

Sold with the handmade display stand. Each work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and ships worldwide in bespoke protective packaging.