Pretentious Yet Pointless
An important part of this image is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the subtly stretched downward reaching components to indicate the sensuality of intoxification. Contrasts of sugar and wine emphasise the broad scope of this drawing. A constantly changing network, the relationship of the viewer of which is always the same, is always irrefutably altered by the mere presence of the outer surface. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A temporally changing evanescence, the relationship of the spectator of which is always the same, is often in a different form by the essential fact of the outer surface. Sol Aris has not commented on the individuality of this sketch. The emphatically factual experience of night and day in this sketch, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind invaluable cultural icons...
``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.''
[Johannes Itten, The Art of Color]