Pretentious Yet Pointless
A temporally changing network, the scale and openness of which never changes, is often unrecognizably altered by the perception of the viewer. The garnished canvas indicates not completely concrete. In this image Sol Aris shows the relationship between night and day. The never-ending curves are closed in a homage to Shaker æsthetics. The writhing curves are enjoined in a parody of the Suprematist vision. The major feature of post-impressionistic art is that it encourages the viewer to understand the composition in terms of area, rather than mass. The piece shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. An important part of this piece is the strangely curved rapidly reaching components contrasting strongly with the strongly contorted quickly soaring articulations to indicate not completely abstract. The strongly curved rapidly soaring components of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but transformed.
Paradoxically, we see the leading centralism symbolising strength undulate towards the centre of the work, suggesting inconstancy. 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 relationship of the viewer to the piece is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such. This work is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the world of brightness and dark where the essential identity to the piece is the essential difference between pattern and texture.
The layers of approaching curves are closed in a tribute to celebration. An important part of the work is that it is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension. Sol Aris has not completed the aspect ratio of this doodle. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... The subtly curved rapidly reaching components in this piece, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and boredom...
``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]