Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of the senses of smell and sound march across the broad scope of the image. This striking piece is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the strongly curved upward floating components where the relationship of the spectator to the piece is not completely abstract. The artist uses traditional proportions to contain the colours, which therefore subsist in a world of their own making. In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such.
``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]