Slightbox is a backlit display frame for a single 35mm film slide.

A photon takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth from the surface of the Sun. Photons slice through the layers of film, leaving a latent image revealed later by the chemical development process. A slide captures a moment in time, a miniature vignette of a briefly illuminated world. Can we ever capture time, hold it in our hands? What do we reveal when we shine a light on the past? What memories are best left in darkness?

The tote is ubiquitous in art and design culture. One part status symbol, one part marketing device, and one part handy bag, people collect and distribute totes similarly to how we used to distribute business cards. This has resulted in the Tote Tote, a bag full of bags many of us have stashed in our closets as different brands and images fall out of rotation, or when we encounter a freebie we don't need but just can't say no. Now we can have a new kind of tote tote: a tote that is a combination or reconstitution of other totes. This Tote Tote slows down the production of the tote, recycling the discards into a tote that only promotes its own tote-ness.