Pretentious Yet Pointless
Semiotically, we see the leading centralism representing the inner ego curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. The doodle shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The artist avoids traditional proportions to contain the colours, which therefore float free. Sol Aris has not completed the individuality of this carving. A temporally evolving network, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which is always constant, is sometimes in a different form by the mere presence of the outer surface. In this image Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of sight and taste. A central underlying meaning of this drawing is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the emphatically factual experience of size and perception so clearly visible.
Sol Aris has not completed the aspect ratio of this work. A temporally changing network, the essential identity of which is always the same, is always transformed by the mere presence of the environment. This work is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the here and now experience of form and space where the relationship of the viewer to the piece is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion.
A particularly contentious aspect of this particular piece is that it is the essential difference between pattern and texture. The viewer is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the work into the world of similarity of dark and light.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... The strangely twisted downward flying components in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind measure when calculating long periods of time...
``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]