​Ruth L. Poor

I often welcome the silence. My audio-processing disorder makes it hard for me to understand speech in loud environments, so I seek the...

Heavenly Visions - The American Shakers Use of Word, Image, and Song as Documented by Shaker Scribes The history of American Christian...

Facing East: Comparing Calligraphic Practices and their Relationships to Mizrah, Ad Orientem, and Qibla Over millennia, the Abrahamic...

Friends say that my anger is justified because July 23rd, my birthday, opens Leo’s first solar cycle. As a fire sign, my astrological...

As the foreboding hyperobject of climate change barrels toward humanity, we have simultaneously begun to understand the tremendous...

Juan Reginald Darnell Michael Daniel Portrait Project Reflection This portrait series started out somewhat symbolically and became more...

As Bun and I enthusiastically chatted in the front seats of my Yaris, I glanced in the rearview mirror to make sure Kelsey’s eyes hadn’t...

“Toile de Jouy: Relationships of Power and Hierarchy in Connection to Staffage and Consumerism" The height of the 18th century into the...

fig. 1 The oval, across symbolism, mathematics, religion, art, history, and literature, holds a multitude of meanings. Sometimes...

#theartinstituteofchicago #fermeornee #aic #propaganda #labor #toiledejouy While both occupy the same spaces, the landowner and laborer...

Poor uses collage methods with paint, hand embroidery, and screen printing to create the sometimes juxtaposed, camouflaged, or...

“Procrustes, said to be the son of Poseidon , had an iron bed on which he compelled his victims to lie. Here, if a victim was shorter...

Through the fog and wild thickets of the rural Midwest landscape lie isolated and zealot sectors of Christianity. Spiritual leaders in...

Existing as points between impoverished rural landscapes and religious zealot behaviors lay both my history as a young child and a morbid...

This work is a search for the connections between the spiritual and the mundane using various religious, spiritual, and ceremonial...

The pervasiveness of western media can be seen in the largest constructs of American society down to the simplest texts of children’s...