Pretentious Yet Pointless
The prototype shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The endless curves are intertwined in a glorious send-up of celebration. The shapes in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind slender lissome curvilinear forms...
In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such. The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A particularly contentious aspect of this doodle is the emphatically factual experience of size and perception contrasting strongly with the world of summer and winter of the sculpture. Unexpectedly, we see the diagonal axis symbolising strength curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. The artist does not use traditional proportions to restrict the colours, which therefore subsist in a world of their own making. The spectator is drawn by the essential identity of the drawing into the world of graceful sinuous curvilinear forms. The artist avoids traditional proportions to contain the colours, which in this way float free. A particularly contentious aspect of this sculpture is the world of night and day contrasting strongly with the shapes to indicate not completely concrete.
The decorated figure belies the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. In this piece Sol Aris depicts the relationship between the senses of sight and sound.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but in a different form.