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Tapestry by Christopher Myers, Sarah Forbes Bonetta as Omoba Aina as Persephone, appliqué textile, 108" x 408", 2021.). The image illustrates a key body of work by interdisciplinary artist Christopher Myers: his bright, patterned tapestries, which draw widely upon global visual, historical, literary and cultural influences and practices and issues such as migration, globalization and colonization. The pictured work depicts the story of a 19th-century Yoruba princess who was orphaned and enslaved in a regional war, given to the British as a diplomatic gift, raised as Queen Victoria's ward, and finally married to a wealthy industrialist. It connects her hybrid identity to colonial history and the Greek goddess Persephone, who was given away to Hades, god of the underworld. This work and body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Christopher Myers. Copyright held by the artist.

Christopher Myers

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work by Christopher Myers, his brightly colored, intricately patterned appliqué tapestries, which draw upon influences including the Quilts of Gee's Bend, the cutouts of Henri Matisse cutouts, the figurative work of Jacob Lawrence, and global regional forms. Myers's tapestries are rooted in storytelling and explores the contemporary hybrid cultures and identities resulting from histories of migration (chosen and forced), globalization and colonization, moving between image and language, sociopolitical research and mythology. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this fundamental body of work in his overall art, which brought Myers widespread recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Myers's work of this type and this work itself is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Christopher Myers, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.