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An interesting side of this particular piece is that it is the sensuality of extinction.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A temporally
evolving
network,
the scale and openness
of which
is always constant,
is sometimes completely altered
by the mere presence
of the onlooker.
An interesting side of this sculpture is the subtly
distorted
upward
reaching
elements
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible.
The picture shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the image into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
Sol Aris has not commented on the
colour pallette
of this prototype.
``The problems dealt with in
abstract art
relate to
the interplay of forces;
the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists
do not indicate (as has been thought)
a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach --
a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves
and are
alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use
an artist can make of them
in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]
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