This zen sculpture features a magnet levitating between the monk’s hands. Cast in solid bismuth, this little monk achieves perfect balance with bismuth’s amazing diamagnetic force. The cube floats with no batteries, no wires, no wind. It touches nothing but air. Undisturbed, it will float there for the rest of your life.

This amazing primordial metal is diamagnetic, repelling both of the magnets’ poles (North and South) equally between the hands. The two massive magnets on either side create lines of force that lift and attract the little floater. Balanced, the little cube is lifted by the lines of force but can’t decide which side magnet is more attractive.

This is diamagnetic flotation of a 5 mm cube or sphere magnet.

The magnet touches nothing but air.

The arrangement requires no power of any kind, just a balancing of two bismuth crystals and two magnets.

This one is designed to show the amazingly ordered structure of the bismuth crystal. It’s cut from a solid chunk of bismuth ingot. This amazing metal just froze the way you see it here. There is no construction, no synthesis and no applied color!

It’s about 8 inches tall including the crown magnet.