Pretentious Yet Pointless
The garnished figure enriches the spiritual dimension and its endless possibilities. The picture shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
In this image Sol Aris delineates the relationship between bare hands and pepper.
An interesting aspect of this particular prototype is that it is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
The essence of Shaker æsthetics is that it encourages the viewer to define form in terms of area, rather than representational versimilitude. Sol Aris has not described the price of this work. It is useful to note that the essence of the Suprematist theory is that it enables Sol Aris to understand the composition in terms of space, rather than representational versimilitude.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]