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Moments frozen in time are a construction. They necessitate spontaneity, familiarity, repetition and a little bit of luck. The best photographers can make these moments seem inevitable, effortless. Fleetingness is layered with deeper meaning that’s not evident on the surface, but felt under translucent strata of symbol and feeling.

Thomas Moore has a gift for making the unseeable seeable, subtly translated through a shifting veneer of quiet, mystery and the seemingly mundane. Look for a bit at a benign, somewhat confusing photo and you start to see and feel the opposite: bath mats warring, a baby anointed with holy light, a girl decapitated by a balloon, a child’s basketball backboard infused with the Holy Spirit. Is this a symbol of our boring, familiar life or a moniker of the profound, unknowing currents beneath it? Other images are more direct, but no less layered: a middle fingered sculpture, a boy pointing a toy gun into the distance. They can take us on a ride of emotions: disquiet, intrigue, humor, disgust, and back to intrigue, for example. Not only is the line blurred between the sacred and the profane, but between picturesque and terrifying, documentary and fiction, immediacy and endurance.

It all begs us to question our reality and actively explore what we’re experiencing. The images can appear passive, but they demand we be the opposite.

– Sam Lubell