A lamp that requires a ritual to turn on. Before electric light, illuminating a room was a process. One gathered materials, prepared a flame, tended it. That relationship disappeared within a generation. The result is a world in which light is produced and discarded without thought, and a night sky that no longer meaningfully exists across most of the United States. I came to design through cooking, in kitchens built around the philosophy of the Slow Food movement. The argument was that the process of making something is part of its value. Convenience has a cost that its price does not reflect. The Slow Light applies that argument to lighting. To turn it on, place the stones onto the small black dishes. Each one closes a connection and raises the light incrementally.