SURREAL ILLUSIONS IN GOLD
The Breathing Sphere
Op Art in Gold
A perfectly flat checkerboard of raised gold leaf and black swells outwards in the middle, as if a sphere were breathing under the surface — pure op art, made only of squares.
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Graphic, precise and alive. Striking above a desk, in a modern dining room or as the centre of a black-and-gold gallery wall.
- Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
- Samsung Frame TV version included (3840 × 2160)
- Signed licence certificate (PDF) — see it
- Sent by e-mail the moment you pay — nothing is shipped
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This work together with The Golden Vortex and The Impossible Stairs — three hypnotic optical illusions in gold leaf and black — a vortex, a swelling sphere and a staircase that never ends.
Buy all three · €19.99Details
- Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
- The commercial licence covers hotels, offices, restaurants and public spaces
- Print it yourself at any size, on metal, acrylic, glass or fine-art paper
On a Samsung Frame TV
Every download also includes a 3840 × 2160 file made for the Samsung Frame and other art-mode TVs: the whole work, uncropped, on a quiet mat in a colour taken from the picture. Send it to the TV with the SmartThings app and show it in Art Mode. All Frame TV art →
How large can I print it?
The file is around 9,000 px on the long edge. That prints crisply to about 75 cm on the long edge at gallery quality, and to 130–170 cm at the distance you look at a picture over furniture. Sizes, paper and framing, in detail →
Which paper or surface?
Gold on dark grounds wants a matte or satin fine-art paper (200–310 gsm), or aluminium for humid rooms; glossy photo paper turns the black into a mirror. The pale works also take satin and baryta papers.
Which licence do I need?
Personal (€9.99) covers your own home and gifts. Any business or space open to the public — a spa, clinic, hotel, office, restaurant — needs the commercial licence (€99.99, one venue, no renewal). The venue guide →
How big, and how high, on my wall?
Width of the furniture beneath divided by 1.618; centre of the picture at 150 cm from the floor. How to hang wall art using the golden ratio →
