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Installation by Dawn DeDeaux, MotherShip III: The Station (warehouse installation, entrance view, 2014). The installation illustrates a later body of work in Dawn DeDeaux's career beginning in the 2010s: her large-scale, three-part mixed-media "MotherShip" project. It includes drawings, photographs, sculpture and installation—in this case, a warehouse installation depicting an escape vessel made of large metal rings, suggesting a spaceship or zeppelin. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and commissioned by arts institutions.

Dawn DeDeaux. Copyright held by the artist.

Dawn DeDeaux

Installation view

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later stage in Dawn DeDeaux's career beginning in the 2010s, when she produced her large-scale, three-part mixed-media "MotherShip" project. The project included drawings, photographs, sculpture and installation, taking as its launching point Stephen Hawking’s assertion that humanity had 100 years left—not to save the Earth but to leave it. It was exhibited in various forms, at Prospect.3 (2014), MASS MoCA (2019) and the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology (2020–1), among other venues. Its imagery has included a life-size aluminum horse rendered within a slab of polished acrylic, a 30-foot DNA strand of stacked chairs, free- falling suitcases, a vessel made of thirty-foot metal rings suggesting spaceships or zeppelins, tall escape ladders, and various relics (charred remnants, seeds, photographs, earth, a baseball bat) termed "Souvenirs of Earth." Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this later development and body of work, which brought widespread recognition through exhibitions in major venues, coverage by major critics in publications, and museum commissions. DeDeaux's work of this type and this work 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 Dawn DeDeaux, and the work no longer exists in this form, 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.