Altering the shape of pixels in illustrator

Hello!
I was wondering if anyone might be able to give me some advice on how to alter the shape of the pixels in an image to a custom pixel shape in illustrator.
Thanks in advance.

Wittyhearts,
You asked:
Is there anyway I might be able to do this without having to recolour each of the hearts?
Yes, if you don't mind that the fill is pixel based.
Follow Jacob's steps to create a grid of hearts on top of your image.
Make sure that each heart is the size of the enlarged "pixel". (If you do this enlargement in Photoshop, use the Nearest Neighbour to get hard edges for each "pixel").
Make sure that the Hearts grid is aligned with the large image Pixel grid.
Fill the Hearts with Black. Select them all and Group them.
Select both the Hearts and the picture below it and click Make Mask in the Transparency Panel. Check the Invert Mask option.
This should be the result (I added black background).
I just thought that it may be even better to convert the image fiirst to a vector mosaic: Object menu > Create Object Mosaic...
Then create the Heart grid and make it a Mask.
When you go to Object > Flatten Transparency and set the Raster/Vector slider to 100, you will get coloured heart shaped vectors

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