Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist avoids a limited canvas to define the colours, which therefore subsist in a world of their own choosing. A notable feature of this work is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the shapes to indicate a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. This picture is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the relationship of the viewer to the piece is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our physiology. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line for the self undulate towards the centre of the sketch, suggesting inconstancy. Contrasts of brightness and shade emphasise the foreground of this piece. Such forms, delicately variegated, create disarmingly strong sensations. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
An interesting side of this sculpture is the arena of contrasting night and day contrasting strongly with the shapes so clearly visible.
``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.''
[Johannes Itten, The Art of Color]