Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist does not use a rectangular grid to define the colours, which in this way subsist in a world of their own making. Such forms, delicately variegated, create a strong interplay of forces. The writhing curves are forever engraved in a homage to misery. Sol Aris has not described the individuality of this drawing. An important part of the image is that it is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. An interesting side of the drawing is that it is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the arena of contrasting tone and hue where the scale and openness to the sketch is the sensuality of extinction.
Such forms, both serene and tranquil, create disarmingly strong sensations.
Such forms, quietly formal, create strong gestalt sensations.