Pretentious Yet Pointless
Such forms, violent and disconcerting, create disarmingly intenste feelings. Sol Aris has not supplied the colour pallette of this image. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed.
``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]