Following 3 Bees (Zinnias) presents Spencer Finch at his most quietly rigorous, translating a live observation into a work that holds science and poetry in careful balance. To make this 2023 pastel and pencil drawing, Finch followed three bees through his garden as they moved from zinnia to zinnia collecting pollen, tracking his own position with a GPS device and planting a digital flag each time a bee landed on a bloom. The pencil line threading across the paper traces those actual flight paths, while the soft pastel marks record the specific colors of each visited flower. The result is a work that is simultaneously a data set, a map, and an intimate field notation, modest in gesture yet dense with accumulated attention. What makes the work compelling for a collector is the way it holds two irreconcilable impulses together without resolving them. The use of GPS introduces a vocabulary of measurement and precision, yet the subject, the unpredictable arcing movement of a bee through a summer garden, resists any final accounting. Finch has long been drawn to experiences that science can describe but not fully contain, whether the quality of light at a particular moment or the color of a loved one's memory, and this drawing belongs to that sustained inquiry. The zinnias are recorded not as botanical specimens but as moments of attraction, sites where a small creature chose to land, making the paper a kind of diagram of desire and chance. At 75.6 by 104.8 centimeters, the work has genuine physical presence without announcing itself, and the combination of pastel warmth and pencil economy gives it a surface that rewards close looking. Signed by the artist and offered through Galerie Nordenhake, Following 3 Bees (Zinnias) represents a mature and characteristically tender example of Finch's practice, one in which the ephemeral is not mourned but carefully, almost lovingly, held in place.