To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art.

— George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography As Modified by Human Action

High Noon is pleased to present Daina Mattis's third exhibition with the gallery, Forever Wild, a new body of experimental paintings and sculpture. Through use of art historical methodology, linguistic tropes, and contemporary media, Mattis employs stylistic trends that mimic nature to create layered meanings which explore our fragmented relationship with the natural world, highlighting tensions that exist between memory and loss, actuality and artifice.