Pretentious Yet Pointless
In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, empty: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The emphatically factual experience of size and perception in this sketch, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind slender sinuous curvilinear forms... Contrasts of night and day dominate the emptiness of this prototype. Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis for strength undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting inconstancy. Paradoxically, we see the leading centralism symbolising the self undulate towards the centre of the piece, suggesting inconstancy.
In this image Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of sight and sound. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but completely altered.
Sol Aris has not described the colour pallette of this doodle. The doodle shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A perpetually evolving evanescence, the relationship of the spectator of which is always the same, is often in a different form by the mere presence of the reviewer. Unexpectedly, we see the short vertical line representing the inner ego undulate towards the centre of the sketch, suggesting inconstancy.
In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, meaningless: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. Such forms, delicately modulated, create a strong interplay of forces.
``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]