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Public artwork by Michael Arcega and Paolo Asuncion, TNT Traysikel (2021). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Michael Arcega's career in the 2010s and 2020s, when he created several commissioned public artworks, including permanent sculpture and street works exploring bilingual wordplay, site-specific jokes, signifiers and cultural markers, cross-cultural exchange, and sociopolitical dynamics and imbalances. The image depicts is a street-work collaboration with filmmaker Paolo Asuncion—a customized, traditional Filipino motorbike and covered sidecar, decorated with lights, bright pom-poms and a functioning karaoke system. They are common to the streets of the Philippines but it is one of only four in North America, and serves as a visible cultural marker of the Filipino-American community. This works was and is publicly exhibited 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 later body of work in Michael Arcega's career in the 2010s and 2020s: his public artworks, which have included commissioned permanent sculptures and street pieces. These works are often inspired by bilingual wordplay, jokes and jumbled signifiers and explore cross-cultural exchange, sociopolitical dynamics and imbalances, and site-specific cultural markers embedded in objects, food, architecture, visual lexicons, or vernacular practices and languages. 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 later stage and body of work, which brought Arcega continuing recognition through public presentation 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.