Pretentious Yet Pointless
The world of light and dark in this sketch, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work... The spectator is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the doodle into the world of images strong in insight and emotion. Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis representing the self curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. Contrasts of salt and pepper emphasise the broad scope of the painting. A central underlying meaning of this carving is the world of the senses of smell and sight contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours so clearly visible. An important part of this particular image is that it is the sensuality of intoxification. The spectator is drawn by the essential identity of the image into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. Sol Aris has not commented on the meaning of this image. The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The embellished background enriches the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. A central underlying meaning of this image is the emphatically factual experience of form and space contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible. In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such.
Contrasts of night and day emphasise the vastness of this image. A perpetually evolving network, the essential identity of which is always constant, is often irrefutably altered by the understanding of the reviewer.
The beribboned canvas indicates a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
In this painting Sol Aris depicts the relationship between dark and light. Contrasts of the senses of sight and smell march across the foreground of the picture.
The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of images rich in insight and emotion.