Pretentious Yet Pointless
The adorned canvas indicates in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive comprehension. The strangely twisted quickly floating components of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. Such forms, serene and powerful, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, empty: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the drawing into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. The artist avoids traditional proportions to contain the colours, which can by this means stand alone.
An interesting aspect of the doodle is that it is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. The spectator is drawn by the essential identity of the doodle into the world of the senses of smell and touch. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind invaluable cultural relics...
Sol Aris has not supplied the price of this doodle.
``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 owe little to the appearance of observed reality.'' [Brian Keeble, on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11, London, 1990, p.114]