The uniformity and squareness of the original image made me want to change the work in a systematic manner. 

Since the colours were integral to the original work, I thought I should play with them. I tried changing hues (I spent too much time on a pink experiment below which I did not like at all), but inverting the colours produced the most striking result, because they radiate such opposite energies; so I decided to alternate them. Making each square layer was methodical and mindless, which I liked.

 

I had trouble with the photoshop timeline, because of my adjustment layers, but that was solved by working on the timeline directly, instead of exporting all the layers at once.

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The end result is energetic because of the strobing effect, and claustrophobic, as the image closes in on itself with speed, on loop. It is also dense. The original static image already had some energy, which the time-based element elevated and transformed.