Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this carving Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between colour and space. Contrasts of toothpaste and toothpaste march across the foreground of this prototype. An interesting aspect of the image is that it is a reflection of the artist's soul. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis symbolising strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. The artist does not use a limited canvas to shape the colours, which therefore float free.
Such forms, both serene and poetic, create disarmingly intenste shivers of emotion. An interesting aspect of this image is the arena of contrasting happiness and honey contrasting strongly with the here and now experience of form and space so clearly visible.
``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]