Pretentious Yet Pointless
This carving is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the emphatically factual experience of form and space where the relationship of the viewer to the piece is the essential difference between pattern and texture. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, unimportant: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such.
The essence of stereometric construction is that it encourages Sol Aris to define the composition in terms of space, rather than representational versimilitude. A constantly changing glammerdümmering, the essential identity of which is always constant, is often entirely altered by the essential fact of the viewer.
Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis representing strength undulate towards the centre of the prototype, suggesting unreliability.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]