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Pennsylvania Artist Mark Beekman Creates World's Largest Lite-Brite

Pennsylvania artist Mark Beekman announces the completion of his most recent piece, the "World's Largest Lite-Brite."

Many have fond childhood memories of playing with the classic Hasbro toy Lite-Brite, but 26 year-old artist Mark Beekman isn't ready to let those memories fade. Beekman recently completed his year-long project of creating the "World's Largest Lite-Brite." Measuring approximately 5 feet tall by 10 feet wide, over 125,000 original Lite-Brite pegs were used to recreate a 1:9 scale of Leonardo DaVincias "Last Supper."

The structure, built entirely out of aluminum, supports the 50 square foot sheet metal "canvas" as well as the hand-made gold frame surrounding the image. The piece also has its own backlighting system utilizing Cee-Lite electroluminescent panels, which Time magazine has recently dubbed one of the "Best Inventions of 2006."

"When I was a kid, you couldn't have paid me to go to an art museum. I thought art was boring," Beekman explains.

"With this piece, I wanted to appeal to kids as well as the kid in all of us. I want people to realize that art is whatever they want it to be. It doesn't have to fit a category, and it certainly doesnat have to be boring."

Pictures, as well as more information about the artist and his creation can be found at .
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