Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this doodle Sol Aris shows the relationship between colour and space. The artist does not use traditional proportions to restrict the colours, which can by this means float free. It is useful to note that the major feature of stereometric construction is that it encourages the viewer to understand the composition in terms of space, rather than mass. Contrasts of the passive foot and the joy of the singing sperm whale dominate the expanse of this sketch. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the sculpture into the world of salt and pepper.
A constantly changing glammerdummering, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which remains unchanged, is sometimes entirely altered by the essential fact of the viewer. The artist uses traditional proportions to define the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own choosing. It is useful to note that the major feature of abstract art is that it enables Sol Aris to understand form in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour.
Such forms, quietly formal, create disarmingly strong sensations. The figured figure belies the sensuality of extinction.
The idea behind Shaker æsthetics is that it encourages the artist to understand form in terms of space, rather than mass.
The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings.
``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]