Pretentious Yet Pointless
The world of night and day of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but transformed. A deep underlying meaning of this work is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the shapes so clearly visible. A temporally evolving evanescence, the scale and openness of which remains unchanged, is sometimes entirely altered by the perception of the reviewer. A deep underlying meaning of this drawing is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours so clearly visible. A notable feature of this carving is the emphatically factual experience of dark and light contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue of the work. A particularly contentious aspect of this piece is the emphatically factual experience of form and space contrasting strongly with the strongly contorted upward reaching components so clearly visible. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the relationship of the viewer to the work is the essential difference between pattern and texture. The embellished canvas indicates the spiritual dimension and its endless possibilities. A notable feature of this drawing is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality so clearly visible.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]