Pretentious Yet Pointless
The here and now experience of size and perception of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed. A constantly changing evanescence, the scale and openness of which is always constant, is sometimes in a different form by the mere presence of the viewer. The painting shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The picture shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Contrasts of spring and autumn dominate the expanse of the prototype. The spectator is drawn by the essential identity of the sculpture into the world of slender lissome curves. The major feature of abstract art is that it encourages the artist to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than weight. An interesting aspect of the sculpture is that it is the eternal or spiritual dimension and its limitless possibilities. Contrasts of colour and space dominate the expanse of the prototype.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owe little to the appearance of observed reality.'' [Brian Keeble, on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11, London, 1990, p.114]