Over the course of a three-month residency at the McColl Center for Visual Art the artist created an unconventional portrait of Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), the physicist best known for his Uncertainty Principle. The sculpture’s components are instruments used in the measurement of time and space, albeit on levels wholly inadequate to Heisenberg’s field of quantum mechanics.

While the composition appears to be random, the suspended elements coalesce into a likeness of the scientist when viewed from a single, unique perspective (the anamorphic phenomenon).

Biographical subtext aside, Disorders of Magnitude is a metaphor for the elusiveness of knowing oneself and others.

In 2024 the sculpture was permanently installed at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Garching, Germany.