Scientific Theories Once Widely Believed, Since Proven Wrong by WSW

"This book features 10 images interpreting occasions when truth took a circuitous route. From Einstein’s Cosmological Constant, to Alchemy, to Geocentricism, and seven others, the screen prints are inspired by medieval illuminations and Mughal miniatures to encapsulate moments from the history of science using various narrative strategies. The book inverts the relationship between word and image, with written descriptions of each scientific theory accessible behind a gate-fold, enabling the images to take precedence." - WSW

Jenn Bratovich, WSW: "The book … is a delightful romp through some of our most ambitious and spectacular scientific failures. How do mammals reproduce? What is the mysterious nature of fire? How do bodily fluids or the brain’s topography account for our temperaments? Alison’s book reimagines ancient and early modern investigations into these and other quandaries, turning ordinarily dry material into a humorous and truly accessible catalog of obsolete scientific breakthroughs. ...

"The book contains nine more silkscreened prints (upwards of 10 colors each) in which Alison uses compressed space and skewed, competing perspectives to stack disparate visual components to convey narratives as a pictorial whole. By contrast, each theory is accompanied by a short, digitally printed piece of text that explains how the theory was developed and reassessed by later discovery.

"But in a curious twist, the text is tucked behind a gatefold that the reader must open to read, which cleverly turns the historical relationship between words and pictures on its head. The images are primary, and the text is supplemental."