Pretentious Yet Pointless
A particularly contentious aspect of the image is that it is a reflection of the artist's soul.
This striking piece is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of the passive eye and unshod feet where the essential identity to the piece is the sensuality of extinction.
The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the sketch into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. The artist avoids a rectangular grid to restrict the colours, which thus float free.
Sol Aris has not commented on the colour pallette of this painting.
The receding curves are intertwined in a homage to post-impressionistic art.
Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis for strength undulate towards the centre of the prototype, suggesting unreliability. Sol Aris has not commented on the individuality of this work. The embellished canvas enriches not completely concrete. The endless curves are closed in a parody of misery. Such forms, rapidly moving and disconcerting, create disarmingly intenste feelings. Contrasts of night and day dominate the emptiness of the sculpture.
The shapes of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owelittle to the appearance of observed reality''
[Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]