While I am still trying to get my head around this product, Litracon is a light transmitting concrete. While not a lightsource, it transmits light though its structure to produce fabulously sharp shadows.

In action this is what the substance looks like:

But in the absence of the rear-lit light source, it looks like this:

Developed in Hungary, the possibilities for this material are endless. Immediately I thought of office walls built with the material, to create separation, but allow light to flow from office to office. From an artistic standpoint, it lends it self to an interesting and unique canvas. And perhaps some interesting inter-office communication.

What will they think of next?

When I first came across this site , I was intrigued, but the more and more I think of it, the more it opens up possibilities for me in my mind. I have always imagined a day where you could change the color of the walls in a room, just by flipping a switch, and while this isn't quite there, I find it perhaps even more intriguing.

The effect in the image is quite beautiful, while the light feels a bit cool, the ambient glow is quite lovely. Energy efficiency, hard to say.

But it brings me to another thought, manufacturers are working to make products better, with better aesthetics, and Apple rocks in that area, but what about finding a way to take a product and implant it, or marry it within something already in the room, or the room itself?

Can your picture window double as a TV screen? Can your favorite piece of artwork or painting double as a DVD player?  Could the blessed 8 pound walleye mounted on the wall be an antenna, or wireless router?

It's about dreaming, and imagining the possibilities...

Check out this artist, deemed a "reverse graffiti artist" he creates his art by cleaning. Creating stencils and then power washing through them, he creates a design on a wall, building, or other relatively grimy surface.

I have been working on a technique utilizing Nitric Acid on Copper to create some trees, but this is a bit different process, one of cleaning rather than oxidizing. Which lead me to think of what some other applications for this type of technique might be.

Recently all workplaces in Fargo, ND went smoke free. And perhaps this would have been a better campaign for  prior to the passing of that resolution, but you could do the same thing here as well. Work with a bar owner create a stencil of an ad, and then apply to the wall which has been covered with years of smoking residue, and then clean. This would likely work in restaurants where the use of deep fat fryers was used, removing the grease to better illustrate what you are breathing in.

I cities with a lot of pollution, perhaps you could take a plain white board, and apply white vinyl or a polyurethane over your image and then sit back and watch as the image appears due to the discoloration of the board. 

Any other thoughts? How else could the use of cleaning or the illustration of dirt in the environment be used to create art? Watch the video of this artist on Creativity.com.