Spencer Finch's "Scent (pine)" invites the viewer into one of his most characteristic investigations, the translation of sensory experience into color and mark. Working in pastel on paper, Finch approaches the smell of pine not as illustration but as perceptual data, rendering an essentially invisible, atmospheric phenomenon through the particular warmth, coolness, and density of pigment layered across the sheet. The result is a work that asks the eye to do what the nose ordinarily would, holding the viewer in a state of pleasurable uncertainty between sensation and representation. Finch has long drawn from scientific methodology and poetic attention in equal measure, measuring light off the surface of the moon, cataloguing the colors of a Thoreau afternoon, chasing the precise hue of a remembered sky. "Scent (pine)" extends this practice into olfactory territory, where the referent is even more resistant to fixed description than color or light. Pastel is a medium well-suited to this ambition, its soft, powdery application carrying a material lightness that mirrors the fugitive quality of scent itself. The work operates as both a rigorous conceptual proposition and an object of genuine sensory beauty. Dated 2025 and presented framed, this is a fresh example of Finch's sustained commitment to the borders between perception, language, and visual form. The modest scale, 55.8 by 76.2 centimeters, is typical of his works on paper and contributes to their intimacy, a quality that rewards close looking in a private or domestic setting. Available through Galerie Nordenhake, the work is signed and framed, ready for immediate placement in a collection focused on conceptual rigor, material refinement, or contemporary engagement with phenomenology.