Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this work Sol Aris delineates the relationship between the senses of sight and smell. The arena of contrasting unshod feet and the child's tongue in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images steeped in meaning and association... This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the subtly contorted quickly floating articulations where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the sketch is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension. A deep underlying meaning of this painting is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the shapes so clearly visible. The artist uses traditional proportions to shape the colours, which can by this means stand alone. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the image into the world of contrast of dark and light.