Pretentious Yet Pointless
Sol Aris has not described the title of this image. The viewer is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the work into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. A notable feature of this sculpture is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible.
This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the emphatically factual experience of form and space where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the sensuality of extinction.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]