In Northern Lights, made together with a hacked Roomba vacuum, painterly gestures are detached from the artist’s hand and entrusted to the sensor-based movements of contemporary robotics. These automated splatterings contain chemical smears of modern life: make up, cosmetics, and mood-enhancing pharmaceuticals. The painting raises the question of why the physicality of one act should be fetishized when that of another is devalued: the corporeal act of painting as an integral part of the artwork, as opposed to a feminized body’s labor in acts of cleaning and maintenance.