High Noon is pleased to present Mary Jones’s second exhibition with the gallery, Attachments. For the past five years, Jones has been using X-ray images in her paintings. Regarded as a sort of absolute truth of the unseen, her relationship to X-rays as a tool for formal experimentation speaks to the technology’s history as a “pure science,” that is, research with no agenda beyond furthering our understanding of the Natural World. In 1916, British physicist Sir J.J. Thomson who famously discovered the electron stated, “The experiments which led to this discovery seemed to be as remote from ‘humanistic interest’— to use a much misappropriated word— as anything that could well be imagined.” There is a dream-like aspect to pure science; much like we ascribe meaning to a vision we awake from, we ascribe purpose to knowledge.