Scottish-born physicist, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson’s Cloud-making machine with tiny circus performers—representing particles of life—tumbling about. Wilson worked at the meteorological observatory in the Scottish Highlands. He was inspired by the beauty of colored rings surrounding shadows cast on mist and cloud. Before Wilson’s invention, nobody knew how to track particles. Wilson’s invention provided the first way to do so, and for this, Wilson won the Nobel prize for physics in 1927. Background text: a recipe for Turkish flatbread in Cuneiform, the earliest known form of writing. Map fragments: Alexander Jamieson’s 1822 Celestial Atlas. .

Acrylic on canvas

Size: 36 x 24 x 1¼ inches

Price: $2300