Pretentious Yet Pointless
The embellished figure indicates a primary sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but in a different form. In the Suprematist vision, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line symbolising power and authority curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy.
The artist uses traditional proportions to restrict the colours, which thus float free. Contrasts of bare hands and rolling sand emphasise the vastness of this sketch.
A constantly changing glammerdummering, the scale and openness of which is always the same, is always unrecognizably altered by the perception of the viewer. Sol Aris has not described the individuality of this work. An important part of this work is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the world of night and day so clearly visible.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]