Pretentious Yet Pointless
Semiotically, we see the short vertical line symbolising the self curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. The strongly contorted downward reaching elements of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. Sol Aris has not supplied the meaning of this piece. In the Suprematist theory, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, empty: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The major feature of surrealism is that it encourages the viewer to define form in terms of area, rather than weight.
``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]