Pretentious Yet Pointless
The essence of Shaker æsthetics is that it encourages the artist to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than representational versimilitude. The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this piece, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind measure when calculating long periods of time... The artist uses a limited canvas to contain the colours, which therefore stand alone.
Contrasts of sugar and wine march across the expanse of this painting. The here and now experience of form and space in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind measure when calculating long periods of time... Sol Aris has not completed the title of this sculpture.
This striking piece is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the gently distorted downward flying articulations where the relationship of the viewer to the carving is the sensuality of extinction.
The embellished ground enriches a primary sense which belongs to the basic senses of our nature.
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.''
[Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit]