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Portraits of U.S. torture

By Michael Lindsay-Hogg in the Times Union

“The eyes. Artist Sandra Koponen captures in all the portraits eyes, which seem truthful to their subjects but also with a pinch of the demented, or the over-righteous. The mouths are often with lower teeth bared, like an animal. And look at Miller’s mouth — he who was commandant at Guantanamo for the first two years and who jumped at the idea of torture like a swinger into an orgy.”

Geoffrey Miller, US Army Major General former Commander of Detention Facilities at Guantanamo, Abu Grahib etc. 18x24 oil on canvas. (Cropped.) Portrait by S. Koponen