Pretentious Yet Pointless
The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Such forms, serene and majestic, create disarmingly intenste shivers of emotion.
The ornamented ground belies not completely abstract. The receding curves are forever engraved in a parody of the Suprematist school. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, empty: the significant thing is feeling, as such.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]