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Looking at it feels like being stopped in your tracks by a painting in a museum, unable to do anything but admire it for reasons not entirely known to you.

Blackface is a racist historical practice which involves people painting their faces in an attempt to resemble a black person, usually to mock them for the entertainment of white people and promote negative stereotypes.

"While Trump seems determined to blow up the trade system, Xi is positioning China as the defender of rules-based trade, while painting the US as a reckless rogue nation," he added.

His fateful choice that day — rescuing, or some might say stealing, a precious painting of a goldfinch — brings him solace.

On a recent sunny weekday, the Akron, Ohio, native is readying his debut solo exhibition of paintings and screenprints — “Why Are We Here? No. 01” — to open Friday in his own MutMuz Gallery.