Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this drawing Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between colour and space. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. An interesting side of this particular sketch is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. A particularly contentious aspect of this painting is the emphatically factual experience of form and space contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality to indicate in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. Contrasts of ecstasy and honey march across the vastness of the doodle. Semiotically, we see the leading centralism for power and authority curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. A temporally changing network, the essential identity of which never changes, is always in a different form by the mere presence of the onlooker.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owe little to the appearance of observed reality.'' [Brian Keeble, on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11, London, 1990, p.114]