The Superposition of Art and Physics

At the 2022 Physics Congress, artistic scientists and science artists shared their one-of-a-kind works highlighting the intersection of the two pursuits. Media ranged from ceramics to pins to paintings. Here is a sample of the many inspiring pieces and creators we photographed.

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Kim Dylla is a professional artist whose pieces fuse science and art. Her stunning oil paintings on display at the Physics Congress, Stellarator, create a surreal image of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany.

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Sol’s Hearth, by Brian Ross, is an expressionist sculpture of our solar system that demonstrates its history.

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Sarai Rankin encompasses cosmos and culture in her digital representation of a beautiful pollera de gala skirt-dress.

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Krystal Scott stands in front of Through the Physics Glass, a transformative piece that uses physical and digital art to demonstrate her journey from engineering to physics.

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Sophia Sauceda poses next to a visualization of her research on quark coalescence and meson formation.

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Simon Ji and Caleb Scott-Joseph discuss the rich images they captured with a visual telescope rigged to track space objects and take long-exposure shots.

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Mennatalla Ellaqany shares her photographs of astronomical objects, a hobby she started just two months before the Physics Congress!

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Carl Zent smiles in front of his detailed sketch of a fly, which portrays the beauty in small things.

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Div Chamriass stands with Shattered Flowers, an image of a composite film he took with a scanning electron microscope during his research.