Pretentious Yet Pointless
The here and now experience of the senses of smell and touch in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings...
It is important to understand that the essence of post-impressionistic art is that it encourages the artist to define the composition in terms of area, rather than odour. This doodle is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the strangely distorted downward reaching elements where the scale and openness to the drawing is the essential distinction between pattern and texture. The garnished figure belies the essential difference between pattern and texture.