Electricity and chemistry are not metaphors for attraction and excitement, they are literal. A kiss–a real kiss–is body, mind and universe following information sent from thermoreceptors and chemoreceptors by the instant, holding the participant a slave to the signals. With the softest, mildest movements, the mouth that has been missed can flood a hungry somatosensory system with pleasure that commands as much focus as pain or sickness. But we can map arousal, connection and excitement, and yet have no manual to lift a kiss from mechanic to spiritual and addictive. It doesn’t matter how many political opinions are shared or favorite books held in common, or how many terms and definitions are commonly known. Whatever the science says about pain receptors, the texture of the labium inferius on another fires off an energy in the mind that should is the most pure. In "Told Ya", the way each individual LED participates in creating the moving image of two lovers sharing a pulsing bliss is like that of a human body alive with passion, completely given over to the senses of the moment. The information on the chip within the artwork is communicated by a signal passing through each LED unit, like the feel of hand placed on a chest spreading up the delicate framework of the human sensory system, through the physical world and into the mind. [Pete Bradt]