At its heart Solar Flare is a painting, which I thought was OK but nothing really special. But instead of presenting it on a flat canvas, the artist has broken the surface into multiple planes and put bright colors on the exposed sides of the planes, which makes the whole thing look a bit like a demented Rubik’s Cube. The painting has some of the same bright colors that appear on the edges, but for me that wasn’t enough to make me feel a connection between the two things; instead, the multiplane thing just seemed like a gimmick intended to artificially create interest in a painting that would just get ignored in a more conventional presentation.
Perhaps going further with the Rubik’s Cube idea would have made the piece more effective. Instead of presenting the whole painting on the front, could moving some of it to side faces add more interest, and perhaps comment in some way on the base image? I’m not sure that such a technique would add anything to this image, but there might be some territory to explore there.