Combining the empirical qualities of technology and
the subjective nature of painting, Finch created light boxes that produce an aesthetic experience of the fleeting, temporal nature of the observed world.
The performative
nature of the
paintings and the artist's self - awareness on camera recalls Hans Namuth's infamous photographs
of Jackson Pollock's dramatic
painting process — images that have defined our understanding
of his active bodily presence.18 However, in Saint Phalle's hands, there is an explicit refusal
of the terms
of abstraction that Pollock and others
of his generation perfected — i.e., the expression
of exquisite anguish that could be exorcized by
subjective brushwork from the singular, heroic male artist.