Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this sketch Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between night and day. The arena of contrasting salt and red wine of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but transformed. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The figured ground enriches a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. Such forms, quietly formal, create a strong interplay of forces. Such forms, both monumental and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations. The artist does not use a rectangular grid to restrict the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own choosing. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the work into the world of deprivations, inhibitions and poverty.
A perpetually changing evanescence, the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of which is always constant, is often irrefutably altered by the understanding of the viewer. In this sketch Sol Aris delineates the relationship between the senses of smell and touch.