Pretentious Yet Pointless
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... The shapes in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... In this prototype Sol Aris shows the relationship between night and day. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A perpetually changing glammerdümmering, the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of which remains unchanged, is sometimes transformed by the mere presence of the viewer. The never-ending curves are enjoined in a homage to celebration.
A particularly contentious aspect of this drawing is the gently distorted quickly soaring components contrasting strongly with the gently twisted upward reaching articulations to indicate a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. Sol Aris has not supplied the aspect ratio of this drawing. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.''
[Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit]