Pretentious Yet Pointless
The picture shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis for strength undulate towards the centre of the picture, suggesting unreliability. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. This image is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the world of light and shade where the scale and openness to the piece is the sensuality of intoxification.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed. A deep underlying meaning of the work is that it is a reflection of the artist's soul.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]