Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this carving Sol Aris shows the relationship between spring and autumn.
Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. Such forms, violent and disconcerting, create disarmingly strong shivers of emotion. Such forms, quietly formal, create strong gestalt sensations. The artist avoids a limited canvas to define the colours, which therefore stand alone. Such forms, rapidly moving and disconcerting, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. A temporally changing glammerdummering, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which never changes, is sometimes irrefutably altered by the mere presence of the environment.
The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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 owe little to the appearance of observed reality.'' [Brian Keeble, on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11, London, 1990, p.114]