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Petrole-yam Industry

An entire industry, rooted in a pun.

A fictional visual-art series. Open an image to explore its details.

Propaganda-style poster of a worker holding a giant yam, calling to restore American energy independence and restock the Strategic Yam Reserves.

01 / 07

Strategic Yam Reserves

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Antique illustrated broadside showing a farmer discovering a flaming, oil-filled yam, with a fictional history of orange gold.

02 / 07

The Discovery of Petrole-Yam

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Fictional botanical analysis of a cutaway yam with a hydrocarbon core, labeled anatomy, energy statistics and extraction diagrams.

03 / 07

Petrole-Yam: Specimen PY-7A

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Petrole-Yam advertisement with a drilling rig among crops, flowers and crates of yams at sunset; sustainable energy grown, not drilled.

04 / 07

Grown, Not Drilled

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Industrial refinery processing yams on a conveyor belt and pouring orange yam crude into branded barrels.

05 / 07

From Root to Crude

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Racing pit crew fueling an orange race car with Petrole-Yam at Yamway International Raceway.

06 / 07

Yamway International Raceway

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Jar of orange Petrole-Yam Jelly in a mock medical advertisement for tuber-culosis, explicitly labeled not a cure for actual tuberculosis.

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Petrole-Yam Jelly

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