Pretentious Yet Pointless
This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the shapes where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is an image of the process of creation. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line for the inner ego curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]