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Stained glass work by Christopher Myers, Nat Turner (stained glass, 90.125" x 45.125", 2022). The image illustrates a key body of work by interdisciplinary artist Christopher Myers: his brightly colored, stained glass works, which meld religious iconography and visual practices with reconceived mythology and the stories of historical anti-colonialist figures and prophets from around the world. In this work, he depicted the African-American insurgent Nat Turner in a moment of divine revelation inspired by the pose from Caravaggio's Conversion on the Way to Damascus (1600). 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 stained glass works, which visually resemble his tapestries and meld religious iconography (and a medium associated with sacred Christian spaces) with reconceived mythology to exalt historical anti-colonialist figures that Myers has called "failed prophets. Like his other work, the stained-glass pieces explore histories of migration, globalization and colonization, incorporating elements of sociopolitical research and mythology into their imagery. This body of work is also significant in demonstrating Myers's collaborative practice, which involves him with artisans in various fields from around the world. 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 ongoing 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.