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.

INSTRUCTIONS ::

h - Toggle high-res
s - Download and save image

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