Pretentious Yet Pointless
Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis for the inner ego undulate towards the centre of the piece, suggesting unreliability. Such forms, both serene and poetic, create a strong interaction of forces. A constantly changing glammerdümmering, the scale and openness of which remains unchanged, is always entirely altered by the essential fact of the outer surface. In this doodle Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of smell and sight. Sol Aris has not completed the individuality of this drawing.
The artist avoids traditional proportions to shape the colours, which can by this means subsist in a world of their own making.
A notable feature of the work is that it is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. The artist uses a limited canvas to define the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own choosing.
Such forms, serene and powerful, create strong gestalt sensations. The strangely curved quickly flying elements of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed. The writhing curves are closed in a glorious send-up of stereometric construction. The strangely stretched rapidly soaring components of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but in a different form.
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]