Pretentious Yet Pointless
The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but in a different form. Such forms, both serene and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. An interesting side of this particular sketch is that it is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind.
Sol Aris has not completed the colour pallette of this prototype. In this sketch Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between toothpaste and ecstasy. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the drawing into the world of ecstasy and bare hands. A deep underlying meaning of this work is the here and now experience of form and space contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible. An interesting aspect of this work is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality of the sketch. Contrasts of beer and rolling sand dominate the vastness of this work. The artist uses a limited canvas to define the colours, which in this way stand alone. Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis for the self undulate towards the centre of the painting, suggesting inconstancy. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the subtly stretched quickly reaching elements where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
The embellished canvas belies the pattern of unconscious thought.
``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]