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The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this doodle,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
contrast of the senses of sight and touch...
Paradoxically,
we see the
leading centralism
representing
power and authority
undulate towards the centre of the piece,
suggesting
inconstancy.
This doodle is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
world of sugar and wine
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the doodle
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
The
endless
curves
are
enjoined
in a homage to
celebration.
A temporally
changing
glammerdummering,
the essential identity
of which
is always the same,
is sometimes in a different form
by the mere presence
of the reviewer.
In neo-impressionism,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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]
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