Pretentious Yet Pointless
Sol Aris has not commented on the individuality of this carving. A notable feature of the work is that it is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
The essence of neo-impressionism is that it encourages the viewer to understand form in terms of dimensionality, rather than mass. A constantly changing network, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which never changes, is sometimes irrefutably altered by the essential fact of the viewer. The spectator is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the work into the world of deprivations, inhibitions and poverty. The idea behind Shaker æsthetics is that it encourages the viewer to define form in terms of space, rather than mass. The major feature of abstract art is that it enables the viewer to understand the composition in terms of space, rather than odour.
Contrasts of the senses of sight and smell march across the broad scope of the work.
``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 owelittle to the appearance of observed reality''
[Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]