Pretentious Yet Pointless
The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this sculpture, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work... The arena of contrasting sugar and red wine in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work... Contrasts of night and day emphasise the vastness of this work. The artist employs a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own choosing.
It is important to understand that the idea behind constructive colour theory is that it enables the artist to define form in terms of area, rather than representational versimilitude. In this sketch Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between summer and autumn.
A constantly changing evanescence, the scale and openness of which never changes, is often unrecognizably altered by the mere presence of the onlooker. In this carving Sol Aris depicts the relationship between the senses of sight and touch. Such forms, both monumental and poetic, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. This work is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the world of dark and light where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the carving is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. In this image Sol Aris shows the relationship between colour and space.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owelittle to the appearance of observed reality''
[Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]