2005

The Twins series explore race and sexuality through repeated images of human figures. This series of paintings are gateways connecting two parallel but opposite worlds existing on either side of the looking glass, where the dualities of human nature meet. The viewers are left to determine which is the darker self, and to sort out the good from the bad, the real from the surreal, and the light from the shadow.

2006

Photographing Fairies series explore how the single male (nude) figures stand up to the gazers' scrutiny as sexual beings and objects of sexual desire in the absence of explicit sexual acts. The title is borrowed from a novel of the same title. The novel is about the fascination of capturing the images of fairies by photographs in the late Victorian and the turn of the century. The fairies in these photographs so produced in the intention as to prove the existence of fairies often turned out as nothing but some conspicuous, ambiguous, blurry specks of lights and shadows. As a technical process, Aries digitally manipulates photo images of male figures and uses the abstracted result as the basis for his paintings.