"Multi-media artist Kelly Mark has long been interested in the obsession of television in our culture and in technology’s gradual replacement of human interaction. Her light box entitled The Kiss was derived from an installation included in her Glow Video Series that Mark produced using reflected light as a primary material. The installation consisted of two television screens positioned as if 'kissing' and emanating a glowing, flesh-toned light between them. 'The light source for this work was created by simply recording the cast light from a hard core porn movie…the resulting glow is steady and rhythmic with quickening pulses of colour, mainly pinks, oranges and red hues.'

Viewers of Mark’s The Kiss are reminded of Constantin Brancusi’s sculpture by the same name, which was simplified over many incarnations until it became a highly distilled abstraction of his initial representation. Mark’s version takes the theme much further into the realm of the conceptual, as The Kiss becomes wholly symbolic of the intervening nature of technology in our daily lives." – Rosemary Heather, Excerpt: Kelly Mark Always Working, Canadian Art, Winter 2007