Pretentious Yet Pointless
The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the essential identity to the work is the eternal or spiritual dimension and its endless possibilities.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]