This intimate work on paper deploys pastel and pencil to render something fundamentally elusive: the phenomenological experience of light as it shifts across the body. Spencer Finch, known for his rigorous yet poetic investigations into perception, draws here on the Emily Dickinson poem from which the title borrows, conjuring the way indirect knowledge of luminosity, like a blind person's awareness of the sun, arrives through sensation rather than sight. The passage of cloud shadow over skin becomes the subject, a threshold moment of warmth and coolness that conventional representation would struggle to capture, and that Finch approaches through chromatic layering and the subtle granularity of pastel's powdery texture. The work belongs to a sustained practice in which Finch treats perception itself as primary material, often working from direct observation and scientific notation to record specific atmospheric conditions with almost diaristic precision. Here, the measured application of pencil over pastel introduces a productive tension between the analytical and the sensory, the desire to quantify light and the admission that it finally exceeds measurement. At 74.9 by 104.1 centimetres, the sheet occupies a contemplative scale, large enough to command focused attention while retaining the handmade intimacy appropriate to its subject. For collectors, this is a work that rewards sustained looking and repays study of Finch's broader conceptual framework. Offered framed through Galerie Nordenhake, it represents a particularly resolved example of the artist's ability to collapse the distance between empirical inquiry and lyrical feeling, arriving at an image that is at once quietly beautiful and genuinely philosophical in its ambitions.