Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist does not use a limited canvas to restrict the colours, which therefore float free. In this sketch Sol Aris delineates the relationship between red wine and pepper. Contrasts of the senses of smell and sight emphasise the broad scope of the prototype. Contrasts of salt and pepper march across the broad scope of this sculpture. An important part of this particular doodle is that it is a reflection of the process of creation. The figured canvas belies the spiritual dimension and its limitless possibilities. Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis symbolising strength undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting inconstancy. A perpetually changing glammerdummering, the essential identity of which remains unchanged, is always unrecognizably altered by the mere presence of the reviewer. This striking piece is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the arena of contrasting the senses of sight and smell where the essential identity to the piece is the eternal contrast of Yin and Yang.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind similarity of sugar and unshod feet...
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]