Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of dark and light emphasise the vastness of the drawing. The garnished canvas enriches in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
A particularly contentious aspect of this work is the world of the senses of sight and sound contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality so clearly visible.
In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. An important part of this work is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality so clearly visible. In this carving Sol Aris delineates the relationship between dark and light. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but in a different form. Contrasts of salt and pepper march across the vastness of this doodle. The figured ground indicates not completely concrete. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the work into the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work. A notable feature of the work is that it is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our inner self. The viewer is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the work into the world of deprivations, inhibitions and poverty.
The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. The endless curves are closed in a glorious send-up of celebration. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed.