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Scultpure by Michael Arcega, Baby (Medium for Intercultural Navigation) (2015). The image illustrates a key body of work in Michael Arcega's career in the 2000s and 2010s, when he produced two performance and sculpture works that involved building and sailing replica vessels referencing historical journeys. This image portrays his second work, in which in which he hand-crafted a collapsible Pacific outrigger canoe and journeyed East to West, mimicking Lewis and Clark's travels as an act of “decolonization. On his voyage he surveyed the economic and industrial structure of the US from the Mississippi and Rio Grande rivers, San Francisco Bay, and St John, Louisiana, and exhibited photographs, commemorative plates and the canoe itself. These works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Michael Arcega. Copyright held by the artist.

Michael Arcega

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work in Michael Arcega's career in the 2000s and 2010s: his performance and sculpture works centered on the construction of replica sea vessels which he then journeyed at sea with, referencing historical voyages involving colonialism and cross-cultural interaction. The first was a 10-foot-long replica Spanish galleon made out of manila folders and rope, which he launched and sailed in Tomales Bay, referencing the historic Manila-Acapulco trade route and his own Philippines-to-Bay Area journey. 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 stage and body of work, which brought Arcega early recognition through exhibitions in major venues and coverage by major critics and publications. Arcega's work of this type and this series 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 Michael Arcega, 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.