Courtesy: the artist and Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney.

An illusion of precision, Tom Adair’s unique, CMYK half-tone methodology presents an optical conundrum that straddles this symbolic boundary between art and life. Step back, and we could be looking at a video freeze frame—a barely-there whisper of soft, dim light caressing a spatial eternity that exists beyond the shadow of a sharply silhouetted roof’s edge. Step forward, and we’re consumed by an electronic afterglow gently held behind the flat layered, three-dimensional depths of a handbuilt frame. In the foreground, each point of pigment rivals its airbrushed counterparts; imperfect and artificial, organic and controlled.

We are welcomed to engage with his latest exhibition, Technium Naturae, at our leisure—transported to the idealistic utopian architecture of mid-twentieth century Palm Springs.

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