Pretentious Yet Pointless
The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The decorated figure indicates the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang. An interesting aspect of the picture is that it is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. The ornamented background belies the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]