Jack and I present our third project together. This book brings together a range of his photographs and drawings, expanding on the visual language that defines Hope Takes Work. The exhibition opened on February 12 at Sitting Room Gallery and will remain on view through February 22.

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Hope Takes Work presents a body of paintings by multidisciplinary Jack Moore. The works are rooted in the rural landscapes of New England and charged with an eerie, supernatural undercurrent. Moore’s work does not document nature as scenery, but as a living force—ancient, watchful, and indifferent.
 

For the artist, prolonged immersion in these landscapes fostered a profound connection to a greater universal spirit, one that revealed itself through silence, darkness, and repetition. Growing up in New England, Moore was both seduced and left bewildered by these landscapes.

The paintings emerge from that tension: a state of being simultaneously afraid and entranced, pulled toward something vast and unknowable while resisting dissolution within it.
 

Through moody atmospheres, restrained palettes, and charged negative space, Moore invites viewers to confront the spiritual weight of the land itself. These works ask us to consider nature not as refuge, but as an entity capable of awakening awe, dread, and reverence—an unseen presence that lingers just beyond the edge of perception.