Pretentious Yet Pointless
The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A particularly contentious aspect of the doodle is that it is the eternal dimension and its endless possibilities. The artist employs a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which can by this means stand alone. The layers of approaching curves are closed in a parody of celebration. The essence of constructive colour theory is that it enables Sol Aris to define form in terms of dimensionality, rather than weight. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of rolling sand and salt where the essential identity to the painting is the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
The strangely stretched quickly floating articulations of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed.
The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but transformed.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]