Full and Filled is a project by Carmen Alcocer, a New Orleans-based mixed media artist. The exhibition consists of seven miniature models of gas station convenience stores attached to imagined consumer spaces representing the Seven Deadly Sins. Each of these allegorical establishments are paired with one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, to further emphasize the connections between consumerism and exploitation. These models are crafted entirely from recycled materials to create spaces where desire, shame, and consumer culture can be examined comprehensively: by reducing the size of these spaces to a minute scale.

These layers of symbolism frame the gas station as a site where modern desires intersect with moral judgment and historical systems of exploitation. While the miniatures are disarming and endearing given their scale, the collection as a whole identifies gas stations as the ultimate theatre where we stage our individual battles between desire and shame, and where the contradictions of modern consumer culture can readily be found.