Pretentious Yet Pointless
The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The emphatically factual experience of size and perception in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and hardship... Unexpectedly, we see the leading centralism for power and authority undulate towards the centre of the painting, suggesting unreliability. The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A notable feature of the work is that it is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. In this piece Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between colour and space.
A deep underlying meaning of this image is the here and now experience of the senses of sight and sound contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible. Contrasts of the senses of smell and taste march across the expanse of the sketch.
Such forms, serene and majestic, create strong gestalt sensations.
In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, empty: the significant thing is feeling, as such.
In this drawing Sol Aris depicts the relationship between brightness and shade.
``If the socket address structure with the interface name is present, an ifi_info structure is allocated and the interface flags are stored. The expected family of this socket address structure is AF_LINK, indicating a datalink socket address structure. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the interface name is copied into the ifi_info structure. Otherwise a string containing the interface index is stored as the name. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the hardware address (e.g. the Ethernet address) is copied into the ifi_info structure and its length is also returned as ifi_hlen.''
[Richard Stevens, Unix Network Programming]