by thickening light, as it were—enables it to be modulated to 
carry information as do radio waves. But because of its greater 
intensity, a single laser beam can carry as much information as 
all the combined radio and TV channels in the United States. 
Such beams are not within the range of vision, and may well 
have a military future as lethal agents.

     From the air at night, the seeming chaos of the urban 
area manifests itself as a delicate embroidery on a dark velvet 
ground. George Kepes has developed these aerial effects of the 
city at night as a new art form of “landscape by light through” 
rather than “light on.” His new electric landscapes have 
complete congruity with the TV image, which also exists by 
light through  rather than by light on .

     The French painter André Girard began painting directly