This is a generative art study of Bridget Riley's "Kiss". Kiss is one of the earliest works from what would become her Op Art series throughout the 1960s. While utilising two simple shades, black and white, the juxtaposition of the elements, almost but not quite touching, causes visual electricity.
Growing up in the late 70s and 80s, with chunky pixels and zeros and ones, "Kiss" taught me that the magic could happen when those zeros and ones, those blacks and whites, those blocky pixels on the glowing cathode-ray tube, press up against each other, creating so much more than their simple components.
My exploration with Kiss continued with the Three Kisses a Day project on Twitter: https://twitter.com/threekissesaday, which started in 2017 and finished in 2019. Each Kiss Study utilised a hexadecimal string describing each Study's shape, angle and colour. Feeding the hexadecimal string back into the algorithm would recreate an identical Kiss.
This token/hash-based work has been expanded for a short run on fxhash.
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Print size is square.
'h' - toggle high resolution
's' - save PNG file
The high resolution image outputs at 8,192 x 8,192 pixels.
Print 27.3" x 27.3" at 300dpi Print 69.4cm x 69.4cm at 300dpi
Add ?forceWidth=xxxx where xxxx is the pixels size you want. For example to print at 100cm high, the width would need to be 100cm. 100cm in inches is 39.37" at 300dpi = 11,811 pixels width. So using ?forceWidth=11811 and downloading will give you an PNG large enough to be safely printed at 1 meter height.