Pretentious Yet Pointless
A particularly contentious aspect of this work is the arena of contrasting pepper and rolling sand contrasting strongly with the here and now experience of size and perception to indicate the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis representing strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. The shapes of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed. This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the essential identity to the piece is the essential contrast between pattern and texture. An interesting aspect of this particular work is that it is the sensuality of extinction. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the doodle into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. A notable feature of this particular work is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images strong in meaning and emotion...