Pretentious Yet Pointless
This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the arena of contrasting tone and hue where the scale and openness to the piece is the sensuality of extinction.
A particularly contentious aspect of this drawing is the here and now experience of light and dark contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting the senses of sight and touch to indicate in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension. A constantly evolving evanescence, the relationship of the viewer of which is always constant, is often in a different form by the essential fact of the reviewer. Contrasts of the senses of sight and sound emphasise the emptiness of the doodle.
Semiotically, we see the short vertical line for the self undulate towards the centre of the prototype, suggesting inconstancy. The layers of approaching curves are enjoined in a tribute to misery.
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]