About 2 weeks ago we are taking a trip to the Euphrat museum at De Anza college. The theme of the museum exhibition is “Making Space” which means valorizing an empty space in many forms. Looking up at the corner of the corridor, I saw a single panting with a hole in the shape of a human being. The hole gives me the feeling of a free space where people can fit in and do whatever they want. I am interested and tried to see more clearly. Then I discovered that the painting was called “Tax Collector” and was made by Titus Kaphar. Titus Kaphar was born in Kalamazoo, a city in the southwestern region of the US state of Michigan. In 2001 he graduated from San Jose State University with a BFA, then in 2006 he graduated from Yale University School of Art with an MFA. Kaphar's artwork is the interplay of history appropriating styles and mediums. He creates a formal genre and new narratives by cutting, folding, sculpting and mixing the work of Classical and Renaissance painters. Kaphar initially begins by copying paintings or riffs from classical canons a la John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins and Eu....