Pretentious Yet Pointless
The beribboned figure belies the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang. A particularly contentious aspect of this doodle is the here and now experience of salt and pepper contrasting strongly with the shapes of the image. This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the arena of contrasting pepper and salt where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the doodle is the pattern of unconscious thought.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]