Pretentious Yet Pointless
A deep underlying meaning of this picture is the world of the senses of sight and taste contrasting strongly with the world of lager and pepper so clearly visible. In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed. Contrasts of the senses of sight and touch emphasise the expanse of the doodle. It is important to understand that the major feature of abstract art is that it enables Sol Aris to understand form in terms of dimensionality, rather than representational versimilitude.
Such forms, violent and disconcerting, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. Contrasts of dark and light emphasise the emptiness of the drawing. A particularly contentious aspect of this particular image is that it is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. The viewer is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the picture into the world of images steeped in meaning and emotion. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such.