Pretentious Yet Pointless
The emphatically factual experience of size and perception in this sketch, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and poverty... This doodle is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the world of night and day where the essential identity to the piece is a reflection of the artist's soul. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the picture into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
``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]