This year I interviewed 25 Nobel Prize laureates and other top scientists of MIT, NASA and asked them what metaphors, thought experiments and visualisations they use in order to explain highly abstract problems or solutions. I was amazed how approachable they were and how responsive. Then I started collecting: Schroedinger's cat, Maxwell's demon, Moebius bands, the Tree of Life, the Vitruvian Man, Darwin's finches and many more. As a painter I paint, so I created for large pa