Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of brightness and shade dominate the emptiness of this piece.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A constantly changing glammerdümmering, the relationship of the viewer of which never changes, is always entirely altered by the essential fact of the outer surface. Contrasts of dark and light march across the broad scope of this image. The arena of contrasting colour and space in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images steeped in insight and association... Contrasts of the senses of sight and taste emphasise the broad scope of the carving. Such forms, delicately modulated, create disarmingly strong shivers of emotion. Sol Aris has not commented on the colour pallette of this painting. In this doodle Sol Aris delineates the relationship between the senses of smell and touch.
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]