Paul Wackers has always dealt with interiors. He creates often lush, sometimes compartmentalized scenes of plants, living spaces and the things we organically place around us. Through the pandemic and nearly a decade prior, Paul's work was a reminder of how domestic spaces are organized and thought-through, and during the height of the 2020-21 timeframe, felt like a thought-provoking examination of what we were all doing with our living spaces. What is so profound about his newest body of work, Sounds Before The Sun Hits, on view now at Jack Hanley, is how Paul is letting things grow unattended, a sprawl of unkemptness that seems to speak to our almost worn out mindset of staying and working from home. —Evan Pricco