Our Op Art cutting boards were inspired by the Op Art movement of the 1960’s—most notably the work of Bridget Riley, who used patterns of black and white rectangles to create an effect of spatial distortion. The two boards in this series are very complex. Expansion has 315 black and white rectangles, Convergence 437! Caution: these boards are not for the faint of heart. Sitting on a counter, they will demand attention and not be denied. But for the right customer and the right kitchen, they are a spectacular visual statement.

Ken Goodwin: "I created Expansion first. It looks like a checkerboard viewed through a fisheye lens. I made a number of prototypes until I got the proportions just where I wanted them. Then I started wondering what would happen if the squares got smaller at the center instead of bigger and I ended up with Convergence, which definitely looks like it's warping space."