Pretentious Yet Pointless
The beribboned figure indicates a reflection of the artist's soul. Contrasts of the senses of smell and sound emphasise the emptiness of the work. The ornamented ground enriches the pattern of unconscious thought. Contrasts of summer and winter emphasise the foreground of this drawing. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The figured figure belies in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
``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]