The artworks in Silent Notes Taken were created by Stephen Moore especially for this book, and include four large etchings.

Stephen Moore is one of the most accomplished artists in the Church today. A native of Utah and trained there and in New York City, his paintings, installations and sculptures have been included in key programs of emerging artists in city museums, galleries and in publications throughout the last decade.

Stephen Moore's sculptures have been made with primary-colored Jell-O, with neon-encased egg yolks, and other arresting and tactile materials. But for the Latter-day Saint viewer, his works blending red pastel crosses with olive oil (intended to be part artist's gift and part priesthood holder's blessing), his minimalist installations of old missionary handkerchiefs illuminated by hidden lighting panels, and his beeswax towers with recessed, Christian images glowing from an internal light source, contain specific and surprising resonance.

In 1999, Moore began work in a small artist's sketchbook with an ultra-fine pen. Each resulting drawing contained thousands of tiny, undulant lines. This series of drawings completed over a period of two years traversed a path of initially tight geometric pictures, then looser, organic shapes with freer and longer strokes, and finally a zen-like cohesion of nearly infinite numbers of minute marks huddled together in a curious mass.

At the same time, he began to paint again for the first time in several years. The new paintings grew from the drawing series and are pointillist, light-informed works of unsuspecting spiritual reach. The etchings grew from this significant body of work.