Baked Rain

In 1904, scientist Wilson Bentley invented a method for making replicas of rain drops using wheat flour. He let rain fall on a shallow pan filled with dry flour for a few seconds of time. Each drop of rain formed a clump which - after baking the contents in an oven - could be sieved from the flour. The clumps are equal to the water volume of the actual raindrops. I added blue water soluble dye to the flour in order to make the resulting minimal sculptures clearly visible.