At first glance, I saw a chicken’s head and with the title “Cracked Open” in Karen Elias’s mono-print with colors of the U.S. flag, I thought of the fragility of democracy at this time in the U.S., the dire need for passage of The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and John Lewis’s words “Freedom is not a state; it is an act . . . The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.” My first line is about my neighbor’s chicken renamed Betty Bruce when we realized she was a he. First glances, assumptions—these are the cracks that need to be examined and mended for the heart and soul of democracy to survive and thrive.