Pretentious Yet Pointless
The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but in a different form. Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create strong gestalt sensations. An important part of this particular image is that it is a reflection of the process of creation. Sol Aris has not completed the colour pallette of this prototype.
In this carving Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the dualistic essense of unreality and the joy of the flying mountain.
Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line representing strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such.
In this picture Sol Aris delineates the relationship between salt and pepper. The endless curves are intertwined in a parody of misery. The here and now experience of size and perception of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but transformed. This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the world of salt and beer where the relationship of the spectator to the drawing is the eternal dimension and its limitless possibilities.
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.''
[Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit]