Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist avoids a rectangular grid to define the colours, which can by this means subsist in a world of their own doing. In this image Sol Aris depicts the relationship between spring and autumn. Sol Aris has not described the individuality of this picture. The artist avoids a rectangular grid to define the colours, which therefore float free. The picture shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Contrasts of salt and pepper march across the vastness of this picture.
``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]