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SEVEN SINS SOUP


SEVEN SINS SOUP (plus Love).
Read the directions carefully.
Steel cans with archival labels.
Very popular in these End Times. 


words: Melody Sumner Carnahan
design: Michael Sumner

This product is no longer available because the cans have been known to explode after about ten years.

Originally created in 2006 for Suzanne Vilmain’s “Color Show” at Hunt + Gather in Santa Fe.   

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SEVEN SINS SOUP (+ LOVE)
ENVY - Place in freezing water . . .
GLUTTONY - Toast loads of toads . . .
GREED - Add to a pot of boiling oil . . .
LUST - Smother in fire and brimstone . . .
PRIDE - After breaking on the wheel . . .
SLOTH - Toss contents into previously prepared snakepits . . .
WRATH - Serves one, with anger, hatred, prejudice . . .
LOVE . . . a score of zero in tennis