Titus Kaphar : Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?

Titus Kaphar·TED2020
Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?
Summary
The speaker is an artist. His paintings are really shocking. He is a black man who tells us at the beginning of the story. The things that must be said are not always lovely, but if they’re reflective of the truth, it makes them beautiful. The things that he said are histories of black and white people. The color, form, technique, and compassion that he uses are really unique, it’s enough to have important and difficult conversations. It can pull everyone in.

I didn’t know about some people who have appeared in his picture and I researched. There was a history that l didn’t know well but l didn’t want to know.

And then, the speaker tells us that there’s something beautiful in truth-telling.

I think so. The thing that I didn’t want to know, though, it was really important and l thought that the painting was beautiful and great.

However, it’s not that we understand its history. The speaker also said he reconnected with his father, but he didn’t know how to make a place for him in his life. As with most things I don’t understand, he works a project out in the studio. It’s an exploration of the criminal justice system, though, he is not asking the questions and answers.

This must be true beauty.

P.S. As a Japanese, the country which is building statues should be silent.