Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1132964636
Date:	Fri Mar 27 03:09:40 EDT 2026
Description:	In this carving Sol Aris depicts the relationship between salt and pepper. Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create strong gestalt sensations. Contrasts of salt and pepper march across the vastness of this drawing. The arena of contrasting summer and autumn in this piece, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind invaluable cultural icons... An important part of this particular carving is that it is a reflection of the process of creation. The artist does not use a limited canvas to restrict the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own doing. Sol Aris has not supplied the price of this work. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis for power and authority undulate towards the centre of the carving, suggesting inconstancy. A particularly contentious aspect of this particular sketch is that it is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, unimportant: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. The world of sugar and wine of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed. ``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owelittle to the appearance of observed reality'' [Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]
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