Station I: Jesus is Condemned to Death

Michael Connors

Politics has never been central to my work. But the issue of torture, initiated at the highest levels of the government, struck me as completely antithetical to my understanding of the role America should play as a civilized and inspirational culture to people around the world. Some things never change — like the miscalculations that governmental authorities always seem to make. So it concerns me when I hear things coming from the current Obama administration that advocate “looking forward” at the expense of “looking back” and learning from past mistakes.

Michael Connors is an artist and Associate Professor in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Connors has been teaching since 1998 when he initiated the Digital Printmaking Center as an integral part of the UW-Madison Printmaking program. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally since 1979. In 1987, he was the first artist to exhibit computer-generated works in a Wisconsin Triennial.

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