Welcoming spring with an intention: to practice radical imagination. The equinox is a sacred time of equal day and night, reflected in the illustration through equal division of darkness and light. Every year in spring, plants sprout and bloom and are reborn. The land and the earth move like this, as do history and social movements. The fox skull in the lower left represents death to oppression and old systems, with new life and new systems leaping as a blacktailed hare, thriving as shoots of red willow and cattails along a flowing river, absent of dams, and teeming with native redband and rainbow trout and salmon. Free movement and liberation is displayed in the geese, soaring into a future without colonized systems of control and punishment such as police, prisons, ICE, DHS, CBP.
Practicing radical imagination requires us to create beautiful systems of care, breaking with rigid, oppressive structures of colonization. To gather our strength from the winter and emerge into spring with intention. To imagine a world radically different than what we have now, con tierra y libertad. Embodied. Liberated. Practicing radical imagination.