Procrustes' Death Bed
“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 than...
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Dec 6, 20238 min read
Anger/Forgiveness
Friends say that my anger is justified because July 23rd, my birthday, opens Leo’s first solar cycle. As a fire sign, my astrological...
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ruthpoor
Dec 6, 202314 min read
Arcadia and Manifest Destiny: the Shape of Muscular Christianity and Teddy Bear Patriarchy
As the foreboding hyperobject of climate change barrels toward humanity, we have simultaneously begun to understand the tremendous...
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ruthpoor
Dec 6, 202345 min read
Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project - Portrait Project
Juan Reginald Darnell Michael Daniel Portrait Project Reflection This portrait series started out somewhat symbolically and became more...
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ruthpoor
Dec 6, 20236 min read
When Building a Prison Cell
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...
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ruthpoor
Dec 6, 202317 min read
Toile de Jouy: Relationships of Power and Hierarchy in Connection to Staffage and Consumerism
“Toile de Jouy: Relationships of Power and Hierarchy in Connection to Staffage and Consumerism" The height of the 18th century into the...
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ruthpoor
Apr 7, 20235 min read
The Oval
fig. 1 The oval, across symbolism, mathematics, religion, art, history, and literature, holds a multitude of meanings. Sometimes...
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ruthpoor
May 18, 202213 min read
Labor Propaganda of the Ferme Ornée and Toile de Jouy Print: Images in the Art Institute of Chicago
#theartinstituteofchicago #fermeornee #aic #propaganda #labor #toiledejouy While both occupy the same spaces, the landowner and laborer...
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ruthpoor
Apr 17, 20221 min read
Tableaus
Poor uses collage methods with paint, hand embroidery, and screen printing to create the sometimes juxtaposed, camouflaged, or...
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ruthpoor
Dec 21, 202022 min read
Facing East: Calligraphic Practices and their Relationships to Mizrah, Ad Orientem, and Qibla
Facing East: Comparing Calligraphic Practices and their Relationships to Mizrah, Ad Orientem, and Qibla Over millennia, the Abrahamic...
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ruthpoor
Nov 30, 20209 min read
Heavenly Visions: The American Shakers Use of Word, Image, and Song as Documented by Shaker Scribes
Heavenly Visions - The American Shakers Use of Word, Image, and Song as Documented by Shaker Scribes The history of American Christian...
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ruthpoor
May 21, 20193 min read
The Fall
Through the fog and wild thickets of the rural Midwest landscape lie isolated and zealot sectors of Christianity. Spiritual leaders in...
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ruthpoor
Dec 18, 20182 min read
A Battle of Saints and Clowns
Existing as points between impoverished rural landscapes and religious zealot behaviors lay both my history as a young child and a morbid...
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ruthpoor
Jun 10, 20141 min read
Connections
This work is a search for the connections between the spiritual and the mundane using various religious, spiritual, and ceremonial...
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ruthpoor
May 23, 20131 min read
Microcosms and Beings
The pervasiveness of western media can be seen in the largest constructs of American society down to the simplest texts of children’s...
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