Pretentious Yet Pointless
The viewer is drawn by the essential identity of the picture into the world of images steeped in insight and association. The writhing curves are forever engraved in a parody of celebration. In this doodle Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of smell and sight. In this image Sol Aris depicts the relationship between night and day. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the work into the world of graceful sinuous curves. Semiotically, we see the leading centralism symbolising the inner ego undulate towards the centre of the sketch, suggesting unreliability. A central underlying meaning of this particular image is that it is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. The shapes of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but transformed. In this prototype Sol Aris depicts the relationship between colour and space.
The world of the senses of sight and sound in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind salt and pepper... This striking piece is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the here and now experience of form and space where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our physiology. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the world of salt and the passive tongue where the relationship of the viewer to the image is the spiritual dimension and its endless possibilities. Contrasts of salt and pepper emphasise the vastness of the work. The world of colour and space in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind invaluable cultural relics... Contrasts of salt and pepper dominate the foreground of this painting. The embellished figure belies the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.''
[Johannes Itten, The Art of Color]