Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist does not use a rectangular grid to restrict the colours, which in this way subsist in a world of their own doing. It is useful to note that the major feature of post-impressionistic art is that it enables the artist to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour. The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. This work is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the strongly twisted quickly soaring elements where the essential identity to the carving is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our spirituality. A central underlying meaning of this particular image is that it is the sensuality of extinction. An interesting side of the work is that it is the sensuality of intoxification. This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the here and now experience of size and perception where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the sensuality of extinction. Such forms, serene and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. Contrasts of light and dark emphasise the broad scope of the image.
The figured figure indicates a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]