Pretentious Yet Pointless
It is useful to note that the major feature of constructive colour theory is that it enables Sol Aris to define form in terms of space, rather than weight. A constantly changing evanescence, the scale and openness of which is always constant, is often transformed by the mere presence of the outer surface. Sol Aris has not commented on the price of this carving. Such forms, both monumental and tranquil, create disarmingly strong sensations. In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, unimportant: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such.
The endless curves are intertwined in a glorious send-up of neo-impressionism.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]