Finch carefully records the invisible world,
while simultaneously striving to understand what might lie beyond it.
Contrary to what one might expect,
Finch's efforts toward accuracy
-the precise measurements he takes under different conditions
and at different times of day-
resist, in the end, a definitive result or single empirical truth about his subject.
Instead, his dogged method reinforces the fleeting,
temporal nature of the observed world,
illustrating his own version of a theory of relativity.
In Finch's universe if you wait a few hours,
the sun may very well change a leaden hue into gold.
Like the ancient practitioners of the hermetic arts,
who saw changes as the most fundamental truth of the universe,
the artist doesn't always provide an answer in his investigations.
For Finch art can do more;
it can "ignite our capacity for wonder."
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