Pretentious Yet Pointless
Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis for strength undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting inconstancy. A notable feature of this doodle is the subtly curved upward soaring articulations contrasting strongly with the world of brightness and dark of the drawing. Such forms, intensely modulated, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. The figured canvas belies a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our physiology. A particularly contentious aspect of the doodle is that it is the sensuality of intoxification. A constantly evolving network, the scale and openness of which is always the same, is sometimes in a different form by the perception of the viewer.
Contrasts of night and day march across the broad scope of this image. In this image Sol Aris depicts the relationship between the senses of smell and touch. The figured figure belies the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]