In this edition, we cast these carton boxes in a new light by stripping them down and building with them, to uncover how an unimportant by-product of food packaging can hold a greater emotional significance to someone or a group of people, and if this realization can drive us to be more socially responsible in our consumption and packaging of food.

Carton boxes are used extensively in the packaging and transportation of consumer goods. Look around and you will see these carton boxes everywhere, printed on and shaped to create an endless possibility of designs. After they are opened, they are promptly discarded and become the unseen livelihood of elderly cardboard collectors, who laboriously forage the streets and food markets daily in order to have their next meal.

Our exhibit brings these carton boxes and their collectors to the foreground not only by its sheer number, but also by forming a curious set-up resembling large dining tables. Commonly seen as an unsightly pile of trash, carton is employed here as modules to create geometrically pure round tables, alluding to the coming together of people to share a meal. Donated by socially-conscious retailers, the boxes are sold or given back for the support of social causes when the exhibition is over.