Odd fragments, ad infinitum collects the work of four Naarm-based artists who adopt a diaristic approach in their practices, transforming the everyday and domestic into an aesthetic experience that expresses the peculiarity of urban banality. In the same way that a word repeated ad infinitum will eventually lose its sense of meaning, a familiar artefact presented in an unfamiliar context can disrupt and disorientate our experience of the everyday. The strange and sublime, it seems, lurk just a sidestep to the left of our usual routines and habitual surroundings. Granules in a morning coffee or dust motes in a shock of light could be the cropped slither of a fantastical science-fiction landscape when caught in the corner of the eye. Odd fragments, ad infinitum is a group show which glories in the strangeness of urban banal. A microscope makes specimens from household materials in Elena Misso’s darkroom prints. Scale is magnified disorientingly to discover the vast within the miniscule. With a new series of screenprints, Michael McCafferty references early Hubble and television images to push back familiar interior and suburban spaces into the newly ‘seen’ and unfamiliar. Gathering material from various personal notebooks, Skye Malu Baker’s illuminated cyanotypes form cryptic maps that become a choreographic score. Kaijern Koo turns to the world of stag beetles, isolating their myriad forms and patinas to marvel in the inherent alienness of the earthly. All images courtesy the artists and BLINDSIDE Gallery.