Lite-Brite, Artist in Residence

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NIGHT WATCHMAN (mildly amused, to himself):
All right, Museum. Let’s see what you’ve got tonight. No stampedes. No… spontaneous karaoke from the animatronics. And if the wind-up monkey even looks like it’s planning something—no.

SFX: a faint plastic “tap… tap… tap”

NIGHT WATCHMAN:
What was that?

SFX: tiny clicks, like pegs being nudged in a bowl

NIGHT WATCHMAN (approaching):
Okay. Either a mouse has learned arts and crafts… or—

LITE-BRITE (grand, theatrical, as if onstage):
Behold.

NIGHT WATCHMAN:
…Hello?

LITE-BRITE (with dignity):
Hello, wanderer of dim hallways. Guardian of velvet ropes. Keeper of “please do not touch” signs. You may address me as—
(a beat —the Artist-in-Residence.

NIGHT WATCHMAN (dry):
You’re a Lite-Brite.

For a basic explanation, I am a classic art toy: a flat plastic board with a grid of tiny holes, a sheet of black paper you place over the board, and lots of small colored pegs. You push the pegs into the holes, and when the light behind the board is turned on, the pegs glow like little stained-glass dots. Kids can follow printed pattern sheets—or freehand their own designs—so it’s part craft, part puzzle, part “tiny theater marquee” for your imagination.

But I like to think of myself as a luminary medium. I am mood lighting with a mission. I am the living marriage of electricity and vision.

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