Pretentious Yet Pointless
The embellished background indicates the spiritual dimension and its limitless possibilities.
The artist employs a limited canvas to restrict the colours, which in this way stand alone. The endless curves are forever engraved in a homage to constructive colour theory. A perpetually changing glammerdümmering, the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of which is always constant, is sometimes unrecognizably altered by the perception of the outer surface. A central underlying meaning of this particular work is that it is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our nature. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the shapes where the relationship of the spectator to the carving is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. Contrasts of the senses of smell and taste march across the foreground of this image. Such forms, serene and majestic, create strong gestalt sensations. The artist does not use a limited canvas to shape the colours, which can by this means subsist in a world of their own choosing.
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]