Pretentious Yet Pointless
It is important to understand that the essence of surrealism is that it enables the artist to define the composition in terms of area, rather than odour. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. It is important to understand that the idea behind stereometric construction is that it enables the viewer to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis symbolising the self curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy.
``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]