Pretentious Yet Pointless
The here and now experience of form and space in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... The world of the senses of sight and touch in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind measure when calculating long periods of time... In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such. The decorated background belies not completely abstract. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the pattern of unconscious thought. This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the emphatically factual experience of form and space where the relationship of the spectator to the piece is not completely abstract.
Contrasts of light and dark march across the broad scope of this drawing.
``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]