Pretentious Yet Pointless
The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The arena of contrasting spring and winter of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but entirely altered. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A central underlying meaning of this work is the subtly contorted quickly reaching articulations contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality to indicate in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
The viewer is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the image into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings.
``If the socket address structure with the interface name is present, an ifi_info structure is allocated and the interface flags are stored. The expected family of this socket address structure is AF_LINK, indicating a datalink socket address structure. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the interface name is copied into the ifi_info structure. Otherwise a string containing the interface index is stored as the name. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the hardware address (e.g. the Ethernet address) is copied into the ifi_info structure and its length is also returned as ifi_hlen.''
[Richard Stevens, Unix Network Programming]