Pretentious Yet Pointless
The writhing curves are enjoined in a tribute to celebration. This striking piece is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the world of the senses of sight and taste where the relationship of the spectator to the piece is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. A temporally evolving network, the scale and openness of which is always constant, is always in a different form by the mere presence of the onlooker.
``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]