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Sculpture by Phyllis Green, Five Sheaths (cotton fabric and wood, garments hung on wooden hanger; installation width 144”, each garment 78” tall; 2017). The image illustrates a key later shift in Phyllis Green's career in the 2010s when she turned to objects and performative devices exploring consumerism and spirituality influenced by the Vedanta branch of Hinduism. These part-sculpture, part-costume works often referenced Vedic texts and parables. In this work, which consists of five cape-like garments hung from the ceiling on branch-like hooks, she referenced fashion, the Hindu notion of five layers of being, and the proverb that "we change lives like we change clothes"; it conflates reincarnation with the dizzying mix of roles faced by contemporary women. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Phyllis Green. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image has contextual significance serving an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Phyllis Green's career in the 2010s: her tongue-in-cheek works objects and performative devices which took inspiration from the Vedanta branch of Hindu spirituality. These pieces included full-body walkers she could enter and wheel around in, hats and garments that she modeled and was photographed in. They combined a wide range of materials and fabrication techniques, pop culture with Vedic-influenced imagery, and parables as a metaphor for maintaining spiritual aspirations with humor amid the challenges of contemporary life. 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 understand this key shift in her work, which brought Green ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Green'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 Phyllis Green, 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.