Can these bones live? The answer to this question posed to the prophet Ezekiel seems painfully obvious in such a macabre setting, depicted in this mixed media collage by Cody F. Miller as a place of skull heaped on skull, where all hope is lost. In one of the great reversal narratives of the Bible, Ezekiel’s visionary vista of desolation and destruction undergoes an astonishing transfiguration.
Ricardo Levins Morales is an organizer, workshop leader, and social justice strategist. He describes himself as a “healer and trickster organizer disguised as an artist.” One appreciator has called him “a litmus test of conscience.” Born in Puerto Rico, Morales moved as a young boy to Chicago, where he saw injustice, oppression, and Black and Brown communities harmed by White privilege. It was there he learned the work of organizing, influenced especially by the work of his mother. He recently wrote about her on his website: