The Pantry: Conoco Somalia --Helping The Medicine Go Down, 1994

6'(w) x 8'(l) (dimensions variable)

Sugar  and spice and everything nice, that’s what food aid is made of.

germ-processed special premium oil can with label, pure refined white sugar, sterling silver ante-bellum southern spoon, lead musket ball, plastic laminated placemat.

Placemat text reads “The close relationship between Conoco and the U.S. intervention force has left many Somalis and foreign development experts troubled by the blurred line between the U.S. government and the large oil company...”  --Philadelphia Inquirer