Pretentious Yet Pointless
The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the prototype into the world of invaluable cultural relics. A constantly evolving network, the relationship of the viewer of which remains unchanged, is often in a different form by the perception of the viewer. The artist employs traditional proportions to restrict the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own choosing. A notable feature of this painting is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate the essential difference between pattern and texture. A particularly contentious aspect of the doodle is that it is a reflection of the artist's soul. The viewer is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the work into the world of light and shade. In this work Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of smell and sight. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line representing power and authority undulate towards the centre of the drawing, suggesting unreliability.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owelittle to the appearance of observed reality''
[Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]