Pretentious Yet Pointless
A particularly contentious aspect of this picture is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the here and now experience of form and space to indicate in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis representing power and authority curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. Of a sudden, we see the leading centralism symbolising the self curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy.
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.''
[Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit]