Pretentious Yet Pointless
Such forms, intensely modulated, create strong gestalt sensations. Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis symbolising strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. A deep underlying meaning of this image is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind.
A notable feature of the work is that it is the essential difference between pattern and texture. The artist does not use a rectangular grid to restrict the colours, which thus float free. The shapes in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and poverty... The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. An interesting aspect of the doodle is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought.
``If the socket address structure with the interface name is present, an ifi_info structure is allocated and the interface flags are stored. The expected family of this socket address structure is AF_LINK, indicating a datalink socket address structure. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the interface name is copied into the ifi_info structure. Otherwise a string containing the interface index is stored as the name. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the hardware address (e.g. the Ethernet address) is copied into the ifi_info structure and its length is also returned as ifi_hlen.''
[Richard Stevens, Unix Network Programming]